Remote-First Crypto Data Systems Engineer

Coinbase, Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring across the engineering team to build and operate distributed systems for real-time blockchain data ingestion and indexing. You’ll own end-to-end delivery, from design to rollout, and partner with product teams to define data contracts and improve latency, reliability, and cost.

The role emphasizes strong systems design and responsible use of AI tools to enhance workflows. Required experience includes 2+ years building production-grade distributed/data systems with Go and/or

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 Go and/or Python, with familiarity across 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

Distributed systems

Data modeling

Tools

Kafka

gRPC

Redis

S3

ClickHouse

MongoDB

Job description

Coinbase is hiring across the engineering team to build and operate distributed systems for real-time blockchain data ingestion and indexing. You’ll own end-to-end delivery, from design to rollout, and partner with product teams to define data contracts and improve latency, reliability, and cost.

The role emphasizes strong systems design and responsible use of AI tools to enhance workflows. Required experience includes 2+ years building production-grade distributed/data systems with Go and/or