Remote-First Blockchain Node Platform Engineer

Coinbase, Inc.; Salem (OR); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Software Engineer to join the CB Node team within the Platform organization. You will optimize blockchain node performance, build observability, and improve reliability across the stack.

You will collaborate with protocol integration, wallet, and indexer teams to extend performance improvements and ensure efficient resource use during upgrades and production deployments.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in software engineering with systems performance experience.
• Experience operating distributed systems and tuning performance.
• Familiarity with profiling, tracing, and observability tooling.
• Exposure to blockchain nodes or crypto infrastructure is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own performance analysis and optimization across the blockchain node stack.
• Build observability, health-check, and automated failover for blockchain nodes.
• Execute right-sizing across the node fleet and contribute to capacity models.
• Collaborate with protocol integration engineers, wallet teams, and indexer teams.
• Support the definition and implementation of SLOs/SLIs for node services.
• Assist protocol upgrades and node operations with a performance-first approach.

Skills

Go backend

Distributed systems

Performance analysis

Observability tools

Profiling

Blockchain nodes

Resource optimization

AI responsibly

Tools

pprof

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Software Engineer to join the CB Node team within the Platform organization. You will optimize blockchain node performance, build observability, and improve reliability across the stack.

You will collaborate with protocol integration, wallet, and indexer teams to extend performance improvements and ensure efficient resource use during upgrades and production deployments.