Blockchain Data Platform Engineer — Real-Time Ingestion

Coinbase, Inc.; Boise (ID); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company building an ultra-low-latency indexing platform that ingests and serves data across major blockchains. The Blockchain Data Platform team powers Coinbase and external developers via a robust Developer Platform.

We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and operate distributed systems end-to-end, own key initiatives, and collaborate on data contracts, SDKs, and performance improvements.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering experience building and operating distributed or data systems in production.
• Solid systems design fundamentals including partitioning, consistency/availability tradeoffs, stream processing, and storage/compute boundaries.
• Proficiency in a backend language such as Go and/or Python, with familiarity across technologies like Kafka, gRPC, Redis, S3, ClickHouse, or MongoDB.
• Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear designs and shipped solutions with measurable impact.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate distributed systems for real-time blockchain data ingestion, indexing, and query, owning services end-to-end from design docs and data modeling through code, rollout, and observability.
• Own delivery of key initiatives such as new chain integrations, migrations, and backfills, driving improvements to latency, reliability, and cost.
• Partner with product and platform teams to define data contracts and contribute to SDKs and primitives that drive adoption across Coinbase and external developers.
• Execute architecture and performance improvements across the indexing stack, applying strong systems design fundamentals around partitioning, consistency, stream processing, and storage boundaries.
• Support engineering quality across the team through code reviews, testing rigor, and leveraging AI tools to ship faster and reduce operational burden.

Skills

Software engineering

Systems design

Ambiguity to design

Generative AI awareness

Blockchain knowledge

Tools

Go

Python

Kafka

gRPC

Redis

S3

ClickHouse

MongoDB

Job description

Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company building an ultra-low-latency indexing platform that ingests and serves data across major blockchains. The Blockchain Data Platform team powers Coinbase and external developers via a robust Developer Platform.

We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and operate distributed systems end-to-end, own key initiatives, and collaborate on data contracts, SDKs, and performance improvements.