Software Engineer Intern

About the Internship

Coinbase is offering a 12-week software engineering internship during summer 2027. Interns help build crypto-forward products and features, solve complex problems at the intersection of web-scale applications and blockchain technology, and ship production code used by millions of customers.

The internship is hybrid. Candidates select a preferred team during the application process and are primarily considered for that team in its specified location. Any subsequent full-time return opportunity would be remote-first. Coinbase describes its broader working model as remote-first, not remote-only, with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”

Teams and Locations

San Francisco — Product Group Teams

• Base: Build integrations, fiat onramps, and developer tools on Coinbase's Ethereum L2 network.
• Consumer: Develop retail and wallet apps, advanced trading, dApps, and staking experiences.
• Developer: Build the Coinbase Developer Platform, including payments, wallets, trading, and stablecoin APIs.
• Institutional: Help financial institutions securely custody digital assets, stake, and participate in the crypto economy.
• Platform: Build scalable, compliant foundational systems spanning identity, FinHub, payments, blockchain, and infrastructure.
• Enterprise AI: Build AI-powered tools and platforms for employee productivity and collaboration, partnering with ML, IT, and HR.
• Enterprise Engineering: Develop customer support platforms, internal tools, and compliance solutions through automation and customer-first engineering.

New York City — Core Teams

• Security: Build solutions for security, compliance, and privacy needs, including the Workforce IAM Platform and security oversight tooling.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality, well-tested code that ships to production and directly impacts customers.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver features.
• Participate in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback.
• Own a defined project from scoping through implementation and launch within the 12-week internship.
• Learn and apply crypto and blockchain concepts to production engineering problems.

Required Skills and Experience

• Programming experience in any language through academic work, personal projects, or professional experience.
• Ability to break down ambiguous problems into concrete implementation steps.
• Familiarity with at least one of web development, mobile development, backend systems, or infrastructure.
• Ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots, such as LibreChat, Gemini, or Glean, in daily workflows.
• Continuously learn as AI tools evolve and maintain human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality.

Compensation

• Target hourly rate: $60 USD, subject to the posting's work-location pay transparency notice.

Application Rules and Accommodations

• Candidates may submit a maximum of three applications within a six-month period.
• Submitting an application constitutes agreement to the Candidate Privacy Notice. US applicants also agree to Arbitration of Disputes.
• Applicants needing disability-related accommodations may email their request and contact information to accommodations@coinbase.com.