Blockchain Data Platform Engineer (Real-Time Ingestion)

Coinbase, Inc.; Lansing (MI); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is building a Blockchain Data Platform with an ultra-low-latency indexing system to ingest, normalize, and serve data across major blockchains. You will own services end-to-end from design through production in a small, high-impact AI-native team.

The role focuses on real-time data ingestion, new chain integrations, migrations, and performance improvements, collaborating with product and platform teams to drive adoption for Coinbase and external developers.

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.
• Blockchain or crypto data experience is a plus, including familiarity with chain data structures, finality, reorgs, RPC nodes, or wallets.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

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

Go

Python

Tools

Kafka

gRPC

Redis

S3

ClickHouse

MongoDB

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is building a Blockchain Data Platform with an ultra-low-latency indexing system to ingest, normalize, and serve data across major blockchains. You will own services end-to-end from design through production in a small, high-impact AI-native team.

The role focuses on real-time data ingestion, new chain integrations, migrations, and performance improvements, collaborating with product and platform teams to drive adoption for Coinbase and external developers.