Software Engineer Intern

As a Software Engineer Intern at Coinbase, you'll help build the next generation of crypto-forward products and features during a 12-week summer 2027 internship. You'll solve large-scale, complex technical problems at the intersection of web-scale applications and blockchain technology, shipping real code that impacts millions of users. This is a hybrid internship in either San Francisco or New York City, depending on your team selection. Any full-time return opportunity following the internship would be remote-first.

What you'll do

• Write high-quality, well-tested code that ships to production and directly impacts Coinbase customers
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to turn technical and product vision into delivered features
• Participate in code reviews, providing and receiving feedback that raises the quality bar for your team
• Own a defined project end-to-end, from scoping through implementation and launch, within your 12-week internship
• Learn and apply crypto and blockchain domain concepts to real engineering problems in a production environment

What you bring

• Programming experience in any language (academic, personal projects, or professional)
• Demonstrated ability to break down ambiguous problems into concrete implementation steps
• Familiarity with at least one of: web development, mobile development, backend systems, or infrastructure
• The ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, maintain human oversight, and deliver business-ready outputs

What we offer

• Hourly rate of $60 USD
• Hybrid internship with quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges"

About the teams

Product Group Teams (San Francisco):

• Base - Scale the crypto economy by creating integrations, fiat onramps, and developer tools on Coinbase's Ethereum L2 network, connecting builders to 108M+ users and $100B+ in assets
• Consumer - Build the fastest way to access crypto through the Coinbase retail and wallet apps, advanced trade, dApps, and staking
• Developer - Help build out Coinbase Developer Platform, trusted crypto infrastructure at scale, including Payments, Wallets, Trading, and Stablecoin APIs for the global financial system
• Institutional - Enable thousands of large financial institutions to securely custody digital assets, stake, and participate in the crypto economy
• Platform - Create the scalable, compliant foundational systems (Identity, FinHub, Payments, Blockchain and Infrastructure) that underpin all Coinbase products

Core Teams (New York City):

• Security - Build solutions for critical security, compliance, and privacy needs, including the Workforce IAM Platform and security oversight tooling
• Enterprise Engineering (EE) - Develop platforms that enhance customer support, internal tools and compliance through automation and customer-first engineering

About Coinbase

Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company on a mission to increase economic freedom. The company is uncompromising on quality and impact, with a focus on building the future of finance in the crypto economy.