Remote Blockchain Data Systems Engineer - Real-Time Indexing

Coinbase, Inc.; Frankfort (KY); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a contributor to the Blockchain Data Platform team to build and operate real-time blockchain data ingestion and indexing systems, owning the end-to-end stack from design to production.

You will work with Go or Python, using Kafka, gRPC, Redis, S3, ClickHouse, and MongoDB, collaborating with product and platform teams to improve latency, reliability, and cost while applying AI responsibly.

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.
• Blockchain or crypto data experience is a plus, including familiarity with chain data structures, finality, reorgs, RPC nodes, or wallets.
• Uses 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 or Python

Distributed systems

Data ingestion

Blockchain data

AI tooling awareness

Tools

Kafka

gRPC

Redis

S3

ClickHouse

MongoDB

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a contributor to the Blockchain Data Platform team to build and operate real-time blockchain data ingestion and indexing systems, owning the end-to-end stack from design to production.

You will work with Go or Python, using Kafka, gRPC, Redis, S3, ClickHouse, and MongoDB, collaborating with product and platform teams to improve latency, reliability, and cost while applying AI responsibly.