Blockchain Platform Node Engineer — Performance & Reliability

Coinbase; Pierre (SD); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Software Engineer to join the CB Node team within the Platform organization. You will own performance analysis, optimization, and observability for the blockchain node stack powering 55+ protocols, including Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana.

You will collaborate with protocol integration engineers and wallet teams, define SLOs/SLIs, and support protocol upgrades with a performance-first approach to ensure reliability at scale.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in software engineering with exposure to systems-level performance analysis, profiling, or optimization of production infrastructure.
• Experience operating distributed systems, including diagnosing resource bottlenecks, tuning service performance, or managing capacity.
• Proficiency in backend programming (Go preferred) and familiarity with systems tooling for profiling, tracing, and observability (e.g., pprof, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Demonstrated ability to improve infrastructure efficiency through engineering optimization rather than simply scaling resources.
• Exposure to blockchain nodes, consensus protocols, or crypto infrastructure is a plus; curiosity about how different protocols behave under load and during upgrades.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own performance analysis and optimization tasks across the blockchain node stack, diagnosing root causes of resource consumption and implementing system-level fixes that reduce infrastructure spend while maintaining reliability SLOs.
• Build observability, health-check, and automated failover capabilities for blockchain nodes, ensuring the team can detect degradation and respond proactively rather than reactively scaling resources.
• Execute right-sizing improvements across the node fleet, profiling workloads, identifying over-provisioned instances, and contributing to capacity models that balance cost efficiency with reliability.
• Partner with protocol integration engineers, wallet teams, and indexer teams to extend performance improvements across the blockchain platform stack.
• Support the definition and implementation of SLOs and SLIs for node services, helping create measurement frameworks that give the team confidence in reliability without relying on over-provisioning.
• Support protocol upgrades and node operations with a performance-first lens, validating new blockchain versions for resource efficiency and regression-testing before production rollout.

Skills

Go programming

Performance analysis

Distributed systems

Observability tooling

Profiling

Blockchain exposure

Tools

pprof

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Software Engineer to join the CB Node team within the Platform organization. You will own performance analysis, optimization, and observability for the blockchain node stack powering 55+ protocols, including Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana.

You will collaborate with protocol integration engineers and wallet teams, define SLOs/SLIs, and support protocol upgrades with a performance-first approach to ensure reliability at scale.