Coinbase tech stack

Coinbase builds mostly with Go, Python, SQL, Java. Its stack also includes AWS, Kubernetes, Snowflake, React.js. Go is named in 75 of the 206 job postings Coinbase published in the last 12 months (36%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Coinbase, updated Sep 29, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Sep 29, 2026
Technologies in use
152
Postings analysed
206
Open now
139
Modernity
82 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Coinbase use?

Go is named in 36% of job postings at Coinbase, followed by Python (26%), SQL (25%), Java (17%).

Go 75 36% required in 99% · 44 open now · since Dec 2025
Python 53 26% required in 100% · 33 open now · since Mar 2026
SQL 51 25% required in 94% · 41 open now · since Dec 2025
Java 34 17% required in 100% · 18 open now · since Apr 2026
JavaScript 13 6% required in 23% · 10 open now · since Feb 2026
Ruby 10 5% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Mar 2026
C++ 8 4% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Jun 2026
TypeScript 7 3% required in 86% · 6 open now · since Jun 2026
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Rust6
PHP3
Solidity3
Apex1
Bash1
Kotlin1
Node JS1

What frameworks and libraries does Coinbase use?

React.js is named in 6% of job postings at Coinbase, followed by React Native (3%), LangChain (3%), LangGraph (2%).

React.js 12 6% required in 67% · 9 open now · since Feb 2026
React Native 7 3% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Feb 2026
LangChain 6 3% required in 33% · 5 open now · since Jun 2026
LangGraph 5 2% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Jun 2026
PyTorch 3 1% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Jun 2026
TensorFlow 3 1% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Jun 2026
Pydantic 2 1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
Angular 1 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Jun 2026
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Commander.js1
Flink1
Lightning Web Components1
LlamaIndex1
Next.js1
OpenTelemetry1
Vue.js1

What databases does Coinbase use?

Snowflake is named in 9% of job postings at Coinbase, followed by PostgreSQL (5%), Redis (4%), DynamoDB (2%).

Snowflake 18 9% required in 100% · 13 open now · since Jan 2026
PostgreSQL 11 5% required in 73% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
Redis 8 4% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Jun 2026
DynamoDB 5 2% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
Pinecone 2 1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
Weaviate 2 1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
Memcached 1 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Jul 2026

What cloud and platforms does Coinbase use?

AWS is named in 20% of job postings at Coinbase, followed by Kubernetes (14%), Looker (11%), Apache Kafka (7%).

AWS 41 20% required in 100% · 24 open now · since Oct 2025
Kubernetes 28 14% required in 100% · 18 open now · since Dec 2025
Looker 22 11% required in 91% · 20 open now · since Apr 2026
Apache Kafka 15 7% required in 100% · 10 open now · since Dec 2025
GCP 15 7% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Oct 2025
Datadog 10 5% required in 100% · 6 open now · since Jun 2026
Tableau 9 4% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Mar 2026
Linux 7 3% required in 100% · 6 open now · since Jul 2026
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Buildkite6
Databricks6
Azure5
GitHub5
GitHub Actions5
Figma4
AWS Bedrock3
Istio3
Kibana3
LangSmith3
Okta3
Vertex AI3
Amazon EC22
Amazon ECS2
Amazon EKS2
Chainalysis2
Power BI2
Spark2
Superset2
Windows2
AWS Step Functions1
Adjust1
AppsFlyer SDK1
Grafana1
SIEM1
Vercel1

What developer tools does Coinbase use?

Terraform is named in 10% of job postings at Coinbase, followed by gRPC (7%), Docker (6%), GraphQL (6%).

Terraform 20 10% required in 100% · 14 open now · since Dec 2025
gRPC 14 7% required in 100% · 13 open now · since Dec 2025
Docker 13 6% required in 77% · 6 open now · since Jun 2026
GraphQL 12 6% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Dec 2025
Model Context Protocol 7 3% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Jun 2026
Rest API 6 3% required in 100% · 6 open now · since Feb 2026
Git 5 2% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Feb 2026
Google ADK 5 2% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Jun 2026
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Cursor4
dbt4
Ansible3
Envoy3
Prometheus3
WebSockets3
ArgoCD2
Chef2
CircleCI2
Claude Code2
Helm2
Nomad2
Pulumi2
Puppet2
Microsoft Excel1
OpenAI Codex1
Reown1

What AI and ML technologies does Coinbase use?

LLM is named in 15% of job postings at Coinbase, followed by Gemini (3%), Claude (1%), ChatGPT (1%).

LLM 30 15% required in 97% · 19 open now · since Jan 2026
Gemini 6 3% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Jun 2026
Claude 3 1% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
ChatGPT 2 1% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Sep 2026

Which engineering practices does Coinbase ask for?

AI Agents is named in 15% of job postings at Coinbase, followed by Human-in-the-Loop (12%), CI/CD (9%), Machine Learning (7%).

AI Agents 31 15% required in 94% · 21 open now · since Jan 2026
Human-in-the-Loop 24 12% required in 100% · 20 open now · since Feb 2026
CI/CD 18 9% required in 100% · 13 open now · since Feb 2026
Machine Learning 15 7% required in 100% · 13 open now · since Apr 2026
ETL/ELT 13 6% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Dec 2025
LLM Guardrails 12 6% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Jun 2026
RAG 11 5% required in 100% · 6 open now · since Mar 2026
Staking 11 5% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Mar 2026
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IAM10
Prompt Engineering10
A/B Testing8
Hallucination8
Platform Engineering8
Multi-Agent Systems7
NLP7
SLI/SLO/SLA7
Computer Vision5
Smart Contracts5
Fine-tuning4
Agentic Workflows4
DNS3
Incident Management3
DeFi3
Anomaly Detection2
Dimensional Modeling2
Feature Store2
FinOps2
Function Calling2
Progressive Delivery2
Self-Healing2
Service Mesh2
State Management2
Structured Outputs2
Tokenization2
BGP1
Consensus1
LLM Evaluation1
Liquid Staking1
OSPF1
Red Teaming1

And 9 more, each named in fewer postings.

What other technologies does Coinbase use?

Ethereum is named in 6% of job postings at Coinbase, followed by Solana (4%), Bitcoin (3%).

Ethereum 13 6% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Mar 2026
Solana 8 4% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Mar 2026
Bitcoin 7 3% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Jun 2026

What does each Coinbase team work with?

The technologies each team's postings require most often, with the number of postings that require them.

Backend

80 postings
Go61
AWS31
Java30
Kubernetes25
Python25
Terraform18

Finance

22 postings
SQL18
Looker7
Snowflake7
Tableau3

AI/ML

10 postings
Python9
LLM6
Google ADK5
LangGraph5
AWS4
AWS Bedrock3

Analytics

9 postings
Python5
SQL5
Snowflake4
dbt3
Databricks2
Looker2

Leadership

8 postings
LLM5
Go2
Java2

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How much does Coinbase pay by technology?

Median stated pay of the postings that name each technology, against the median of all Coinbase postings with stated pay: $90k across 22 postings.

TechnologyPostings with payMedianvs company median
SQL11$80k−11%
Python6$100k+11%
Looker6$80k−11%

How is the Coinbase stack changing?

Read from the dates of the postings themselves: a technology is new when the first posting that names it appeared in the last six months, rising or falling when its share of postings moved between the last two quarters.

First appeared
Power BISep 2026
ClaudeSep 2026
ChatGPTSep 2026
PHPAug 2026
DeFiAug 2026
WindowsJul 2026
SolidityJul 2026
DynamoDBJul 2026
Rising
PostgreSQL0% → 7%
ETL/ELT0% → 6%
Prompt Engineering0% → 6%
LLM Guardrails2% → 7%
Hallucination0% → 5%
Linux0% → 5%
Redis2% → 5%
Databricks0% → 3%
Falling
AWS39% → 14%
Kubernetes24% → 10%
NLP13% → 1%
Terraform17% → 7%
CI/CD15% → 6%
LLM20% → 12%
Rust9% → 1%
LangChain9% → 1%

How modern is the Coinbase stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 82/100

Coinbase scores 82 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 4; legacy ones: 0.

How common is the Coinbase stack in its industry?

Share of the 447 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

Go30%
Python53%
SQL38%
AWS43%
Java25%
LLM23%
Kubernetes38%
Looker9%
Snowflake10%
Apache Kafka22%

What sets Coinbase apart

Buildkite1%
DynamoDB4%
LangGraph4%
AWS Bedrock3%
Istio4%
Kibana2%
LangSmith2%
TensorFlow4%
Vertex AI2%

Coinbase products in its job postings

Postings at Coinbase name its own products. They describe what the company makes, so they are left out of the stack above.

Coinbase Wallet1

Questions about the Coinbase tech stack

What programming languages does Coinbase use?

The languages named in Coinbase job postings are Go (36%), Python (26%), SQL (25%), Java (17%), JavaScript (6%), as a share of the 206 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Coinbase use React.js?

Yes. React.js is named in 12 of 206 job postings (6%) and required in 8 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Coinbase use?

The cloud and platforms named in Coinbase job postings are AWS (41), Kubernetes (28), Looker (22) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Backend job at Coinbase?

Backend postings at Coinbase most often require Go (61), AWS (31), Java (30), Kubernetes (25), out of 80 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Coinbase tech stack changing?

Yes. Power BI, Claude, ChatGPT, PHP first appeared in Coinbase job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Coinbase tech stack?

Coinbase scores 82 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 4; legacy ones: 0.

How does Alion know the Coinbase tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting Coinbase publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 206 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Sep 29, 2026.

Method and citation

Alion reads every job posting the company publishes and tags the technologies each one names. Shares count the postings of the last 12 months, open and closed; the company's own products are counted apart. How we count

Alion, "Coinbase tech stack: 152 technologies from 206 job postings", as of Sep 29, 2026. https://alion.io/company/coinbase/technologies

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