Jobs / United States / Coinbase
Software Engineer Intern
Coinbase · 🇺🇸 Hybrid - San Francisco, CA
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 119 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 44 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Coinbase paid sponsored hires in similar roles26 certified filings for “Senior Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $179k–$257k, median $219k. Most were filed at wage level IV (44%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 119 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 44 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . This is a 12-week internship during summer 2027. You'll join Coinbase as a software engineer intern and help build the next generation of crypto-forward products and features. 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. During the application process, you'll select your preferred team from the groups below. Your application will be primarily considered for your selected team in the specified location. Following the hybrid internship , any full-time return opportunity would be remote-first. Product Group Teams (internship location = 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. 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 (internship location = New York City): • Security - Build solutions for critical security, compliance, and privacy needs, including the Workforce IAM Platform and security oversight tooling. • Enterprise AI - Build AI-powered tools and platforms that boost employee productivity and collaboration, partnering with ML, IT, and HR to bring custom and third-party AI solutions into everyday workflows. • Enterprise Engineering (EE) - Develop platforms that enhance customer support, internal tools and compliance through automation and customer-first engineering. 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. Required Skills and Experience: • Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human‑in‑the‑loop practices to deliver business‑ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality. • Programming experience in any language (academic, personal projects, or professional). • Demonstrated ability to break down ambiguous problems into concrete implementation steps. • Fam