Remote-First Blockchain Data Systems Engineer

Coinbase, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a seasoned engineer for its Blockchain Data Platform team to build ultra-low-latency indexing and data services powering Coinbase and external developers.

You will own end-to-end design, production deployment, and observability of distributed systems for real-time data ingestion and querying. This role emphasizes performance, cost efficiency, and collaboration with product teams to define data contracts, plus contributions to SDKs and primitives.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating distributed or data systems in production.
• Ability to translate ambiguous problems into concrete designs with impact.
• Proficiency in backend tech and data-stores relevant to real-time ingestion.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate distributed systems for real-time blockchain data ingestion, indexing, and query.
• Own delivery of initiatives like new chain integrations, migrations, and backfills.
• Partner with product/platform teams to define data contracts and SDKs.
• Improve architecture and performance across the indexing stack.
• Support quality via code reviews, testing, and AI-assisted tooling.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Go or Python backend

Problem solving/ambiguous problems

Tools

Kafka

gRPC

Redis

S3

ClickHouse

MongoDB

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a seasoned engineer for its Blockchain Data Platform team to build ultra-low-latency indexing and data services powering Coinbase and external developers.

You will own end-to-end design, production deployment, and observability of distributed systems for real-time data ingestion and querying. This role emphasizes performance, cost efficiency, and collaboration with product teams to define data contracts, plus contributions to SDKs and primitives.