Remote Blockchain Node Engineer: Performance & Reliability

Coinbase, Inc.

United States

Remote

USD 152,000 - 179,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Software Engineer to join the CB Node team within the Platform organization. This team runs the blockchain nodes powering all assets Coinbase offers, spanning 55+ protocols across Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, and beyond.

You'll contribute to performance optimization and reliability across the blockchain platform stack, diagnosing root causes instead of over-provisioning. You will own performance analysis, build observability and health-check capabilities, and work with

Qualifications

2+ years of software engineering with performance analysis or optimization experience.
Experience operating distributed systems and diagnosing bottlenecks.
Backend programming in Go and familiarity with profiling/observability tools.
Strong focus on infrastructure efficiency and reliability through engineering.

Responsibilities

Own performance analysis and optimization across the blockchain node stack.
Build observability, health-check, and automated failover capabilities.
Execute right-sizing and capacity modeling for the node fleet.
Collaborate with protocol integration, wallet, and indexer teams to extend improvements.
Support SLOs/SLIs and validate upgrades with a performance-first approach.