Remote-First Blockchain Platform Node Engineer

Coinbase, Inc.; Charleston (WV); Remote; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Software Engineer to join the CB Node team within the Platform organization. You will own performance optimization for the blockchain node stack and build observability and health-check systems to keep nodes reliable at scale.

You will work with protocol engineers, wallet teams, and indexers to extend improvements, define SLOs/SLIs, and validate upgrades. 2+ years of experience, Go, and profiling tools are expected. This is a remote-first role with quarterly in-person surges.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering with performance analysis or optimization experience.
• Experience operating distributed systems and tuning performance.
• Backend programming in Go and observability tooling exposure.

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 to detect degradation and respond proactively.
• Execute right-sizing improvements across the node fleet and contribute to capacity models balancing cost and reliability.
• Collaborate with protocol integration, wallet, and indexer teams to extend performance improvements across the stack.
• Define and implement SLOs and SLIs for node services to measure reliability without over-provisioning.
• Support protocol upgrades and node operations with a performance-focused approach and regression testing.

Skills

Performance analysis

Distributed systems

Go

Profiling tools

Observability

SLOs/SLIs

AI usage

Capacity planning

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

pprof

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Software Engineer to join the CB Node team within the Platform organization. You will own performance optimization for the blockchain node stack and build observability and health-check systems to keep nodes reliable at scale.

You will work with protocol engineers, wallet teams, and indexers to extend improvements, define SLOs/SLIs, and validate upgrades. 2+ years of experience, Go, and profiling tools are expected. This is a remote-first role with quarterly in-person surges.