Remote-First Blockchain Data Engineer

OpenKrill; United States; Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401

Job summary

Coinbase's Blockchain Data Platform team builds an ultra-low-latency indexing platform that ingests, normalizes, and serves data across major blockchains, powering Coinbase and external developers via the Coinbase Developer Platform.

You'll build and operate distributed systems end-to-end, owning services from design through production, and contribute to new chain integrations, migrations, and backfills to improve latency, reliability, and cost.

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.
• Utilizes 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

Distributed systems

Go

Python

Data modeling

System design

Tools

Kafka

gRPC

Redis

S3

ClickHouse

MongoDB

Job description

Coinbase's Blockchain Data Platform team builds an ultra-low-latency indexing platform that ingests, normalizes, and serves data across major blockchains, powering Coinbase and external developers via the Coinbase Developer Platform.

You'll build and operate distributed systems end-to-end, owning services from design through production, and contribute to new chain integrations, migrations, and backfills to improve latency, reliability, and cost.