Blockchain Node Platform Engineer - Performance & Reliability

Coinbase, Inc.; Lincoln (NE); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer to optimize blockchain node performance within the CB Node team. You will improve resource efficiency, build observability systems, and collaborate across protocol, wallet, and indexer teams to ensure scalable, reliable operation.

The role emphasizes performance-first experimentation and capacity planning, with a focus on reducing infra spend while maintaining SLOs and supporting protocol upgrades.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in software engineering with exposure to systems-level performance analysis, profiling, or optimization of prod infra.
• Experience operating distributed systems, diagnosing bottlenecks, tuning performance, and managing capacity.
• Proficiency in backend programming (Go preferred) and tooling for profiling, tracing, observability (pprof, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Demonstrated ability to improve infra efficiency through engineering optimization over simple scaling.
• Exposure to blockchain nodes, consensus protocols, or crypto infra is a plus; curiosity about protocol behavior under load.
• Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own performance analysis and optimization across the blockchain node stack, reducing infra spend while maintaining reliability SLOs.
• Build observability, health-check, and automated failover for blockchain nodes to detect degradation and respond proactively.
• Right-size improvements across the node fleet by profiling workloads and balancing cost with reliability.
• Collaborate with protocol integration engineers, wallet teams, and indexer teams to extend improvements across the platform stack.
• Support the definition and implementation of SLOs and SLIs for node services and reliability measurement frameworks.
• Assist protocol upgrades and node operations with a performance-first lens and regression testing.

Skills

Go programming

Backend development

Performance profiling

Distributed systems

Observability tooling

AI governance

Tools

pprof

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer to optimize blockchain node performance within the CB Node team. You will improve resource efficiency, build observability systems, and collaborate across protocol, wallet, and indexer teams to ensure scalable, reliable operation.

The role emphasizes performance-first experimentation and capacity planning, with a focus on reducing infra spend while maintaining SLOs and supporting protocol upgrades.