Set the multi-year technical strategy for Coinbase's AI-ready data infrastructure

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer (12+ years, reporting to the Senior Director of Engineering) to own technical strategy and architecture for its entire Data Platform — ingestion, transformation, warehousing, streaming, and serving — while transitioning the org from managed-service dependency to engineering-built, platform-grade infrastructure that powers fraud detection and multi-agent AI systems. This is a cross-org, staff-level architecture and influence role, not a hands-on IC ticket-taker position.

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What this interview tests

End-to-end technical strategy for a full data domain across multiple teams
Migrating from managed-service dependency to engineering-built platform infrastructure
Data architecture for ML/AI workloads: feature stores, real-time inference, multi-agent systems
Streaming and near-real-time data pipelines (CDC, Kafka, Databricks, Snowflake)
Cross-functional alignment and leadership without direct authority
Reasoning about performance, reliability, cost, security, and privacy across the data lifecycle