Remote-First Blockchain Data Platform Engineer

Coinbase, Inc.; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a software engineer to join the Blockchain Data Platform team. You will build and operate distributed, real-time data ingestion and indexing systems powering Coinbase and external developers.

You will own end-to-end delivery from design through production, with emphasis on latency, reliability and scalable storage. You have 2+ years of production-grade distributed systems experience, and strong knowledge of Go or Python.

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

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Kafka

gRPC

Redis

S3

ClickHouse

MongoDB

Data ingestion

Blockchain

Tools

Kafka

Redis

S3

ClickHouse

MongoDB

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a software engineer to join the Blockchain Data Platform team. You will build and operate distributed, real-time data ingestion and indexing systems powering Coinbase and external developers.

You will own end-to-end delivery from design through production, with emphasis on latency, reliability and scalable storage. You have 2+ years of production-grade distributed systems experience, and strong knowledge of Go or Python.