Blockchain Platform Node Engineer – Performance & Reliability

Coinbase, Inc.; City of Albany (NY); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Software Engineer to join the CB Node team in the Platform group. You will own performance analysis across the blockchain node stack, improve efficiency, and build observability and failover capabilities for nodes powering 55+ protocols.

We seek 2+ years in software engineering with systems performance focus. Proficiency in Go and observability tools is required, with blockchain exposure considered a plus.

Qualifications

• 2+ years with systems-level performance analysis or optimization of production infrastructure.
• Experience operating distributed systems, diagnosing bottlenecks and tuning performance.
• Proficiency in Go backend development and observability tooling.
• Demonstrated ability to improve infrastructure efficiency through engineering optimization.
• Exposure to blockchain nodes or crypto infrastructure is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own performance analysis and optimization across the blockchain node stack, reducing infrastructure spend while maintaining reliability SLOs.
• Build observability, health-check, and automated failover capabilities for blockchain nodes.
• Execute right-sizing improvements across the node fleet and contribute to capacity models.
• Collaborate with protocol integration engineers, wallet teams, and indexer teams to extend improvements.
• Support the definition and implementation of SLOs/SLIs for node services.
• Assist protocol upgrades and node operations with a performance-first approach.

Skills

Systems performance analysis

Distributed systems

Go backend

Profiling/observability

Resource optimization

Crypto infrastructure

Generative AI usage

Tools

pprof

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Software Engineer to join the CB Node team in the Platform group. You will own performance analysis across the blockchain node stack, improve efficiency, and build observability and failover capabilities for nodes powering 55+ protocols.

We seek 2+ years in software engineering with systems performance focus. Proficiency in Go and observability tools is required, with blockchain exposure considered a plus.