Remote-First Blockchain Node Engineer (Performance)

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

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Software Engineer to join the CB Node team within the Platform organization. This team runs all the blockchain nodes that power every asset Coinbase offers to customers, currently spanning 55 unique protocols across Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, and beyond.

You'll contribute to performance optimization, reliability, observability, and health-check systems that keep our nodes running at scale.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in software engineering with systems-level performance experience.
• Experience operating distributed systems and diagnosing bottlenecks.
• Proficiency in backend programming (Go) and profiling tools.
• Interest in blockchain nodes and crypto infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Own performance analysis and optimization tasks across the blockchain node stack, diagnosing root causes of resource consumption and implementing system-level fixes that reduce infrastructure spend while maintaining reliability SLOs.
• Build observability, health-check, and automated failover capabilities for blockchain nodes, ensuring the team can detect degradation and respond proactively rather than reactively scaling resources.
• Execute right-sizing improvements across the node fleet, profiling workloads, identifying over-provisioned instances, and contributing to capacity models that balance cost efficiency with reliability.
• Partner with protocol integration engineers, wallet teams, and indexer teams to extend performance improvements across the blockchain platform stack.
• Support the definition and implementation of SLOs and SLIs for node services, helping create measurement frameworks that give the team confidence in reliability without relying on over-provisioning.
• Support protocol upgrades and node operations with a performance-first lens, validating new blockchain versions for resource efficiency and regression-testing before production rollout.

Skills

Go programming

Systems profiling

Distributed systems

Observability tooling

Performance optimization

Blockchain/crypto exposure

Tools

pprof

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Software Engineer to join the CB Node team within the Platform organization. This team runs all the blockchain nodes that power every asset Coinbase offers to customers, currently spanning 55 unique protocols across Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, and beyond.

You'll contribute to performance optimization, reliability, observability, and health-check systems that keep our nodes running at scale.