Remote-First Blockchain Platform Node Engineer

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

Job summary

Coinbase, a remote-first company with quarterly in-person surges, is hiring a Software Engineer for the CB Node team of the Platform organization. You will optimize node performance, build observability and failover for blockchain nodes, and help manage capacity and reliability across 55+ protocols including Ethereum and Bitcoin.

The role emphasizes performance-first improvements, collaboration with protocol teams, and contributing to SLO/SLI frameworks.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in software engineering with systems-level performance experience.
• Experience operating distributed systems and diagnosing bottlenecks.
• Proficiency in Go and observability tooling.

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 performance analysis

Profiling & observability

Distributed systems

Blockchain familiarity

Tools

pprof

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Coinbase, a remote-first company with quarterly in-person surges, is hiring a Software Engineer for the CB Node team of the Platform organization. You will optimize node performance, build observability and failover for blockchain nodes, and help manage capacity and reliability across 55+ protocols including Ethereum and Bitcoin.

The role emphasizes performance-first improvements, collaboration with protocol teams, and contributing to SLO/SLI frameworks.