Crypto Data Platform Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Coinbase, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking engineers to build and operate a real-time blockchain data platform. You will ingest, index, and serve data across major blockchains, owning services end-to-end from design through production.

Collaborate with product and platform teams to define data contracts and contribute to SDKs, with a focus on latency, reliability, and cost. Experience in distributed systems and backend languages like Go or Python is required; familiarity with Kafka, Redis, S3, and databases is a plus.

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.

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

Distributed systems

Tools

Kafka

gRPC

Redis

S3

ClickHouse

MongoDB

Job description

Coinbase is seeking engineers to build and operate a real-time blockchain data platform. You will ingest, index, and serve data across major blockchains, owning services end-to-end from design through production.

Collaborate with product and platform teams to define data contracts and contribute to SDKs, with a focus on latency, reliability, and cost. Experience in distributed systems and backend languages like Go or Python is required; familiarity with Kafka, Redis, S3, and databases is a plus.