Remote-First Crypto Data Platforms Engineer

Coinbase, Inc.; Annapolis (MD); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a backend engineer for the Blockchain Data Platform team.

You will build and operate distributed systems for real-time blockchain data ingestion, indexing, and query, end‑to‑end from design through production, emphasizing latency, reliability, and cost. You will own key initiatives such as new chain integrations and backfills, partner with product and platform teams to define data contracts and SDKs, and apply strong systems design to partitioning, stream processing,

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering experience building and operating distributed or data systems in production.
• Solid systems design fundamentals including partitioning, consistency/availability tradeoffs, stream processing, and storage/compute boundaries.
• Proficiency in a backend language such as Go and/or Python, with familiarity across technologies like Kafka, gRPC, Redis, S3, ClickHouse, or MongoDB.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate distributed systems for real-time blockchain data ingestion, indexing, and query, owning services end-to-end from design docs and data modeling through code, rollout, and observability.
• Own delivery of key initiatives such as new chain integrations, migrations, and backfills, driving improvements to latency, reliability, and cost.
• Partner with product and platform teams to define data contracts and contribute to SDKs and primitives that drive adoption across Coinbase and external developers.
• Execute architecture and performance improvements across the indexing stack, applying strong systems design fundamentals around partitioning, consistency, stream processing, and storage boundaries.
• Support engineering quality across the team through code reviews, testing rigor, and leveraging AI tools to ship faster and reduce operational burden.

Skills

Go

Python

Tools

Kafka

gRPC

Redis

S3

ClickHouse

MongoDB

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a backend engineer for the Blockchain Data Platform team.

You will build and operate distributed systems for real-time blockchain data ingestion, indexing, and query, end‑to‑end from design through production, emphasizing latency, reliability, and cost. You will own key initiatives such as new chain integrations and backfills, partner with product and platform teams to define data contracts and SDKs, and apply strong systems design to partitioning, stream processing,