Remote-First Blockchain Platform Node Engineer

Coinbase

Lansing (MI)

Hybrid

USD 152,000 - 179,000

Full time

14 days+

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401(k)

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 and reliability across the blockchain platform stack, diagnosing root causes instead of over-provisioning, reducing infrastructure spend, and building the observability and

Qualifications

2+ years of software engineering with systems-level performance focus.
Experience operating distributed systems and diagnosing bottlenecks.
Proficiency in Go and observability tooling for profiling and tracing.

Responsibilities

Own performance analysis and optimization across the blockchain node stack.
Build observability, health-check, and automated failover capabilities.
Execute right-sizing improvements and contribute to capacity models.
Collaborate with protocol, wallet, and indexer teams to extend performance gains.
Define and implement SLOs and SLIs for node services.
Support protocol upgrades with a performance-first approach and testing.