Remote-First Senior Blockchain Infrastructure Engineer

Coinbase; Helena (MT); On-site; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Blockchain Networks team. You will build infrastructure that integrates blockchain protocols with Coinbase's internal services for new assets, stablecoins, and staking, delivering reliable APIs and platform primitives.

Responsibilities include leading multi-quarter initiatives, defining APIs and SLOs, and collaborating with product teams to drive cross-chain adoption while maintaining high performance and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with production services.
• Experience designing, scaling, and maintaining distributed systems.
• Direct experience with blockchain protocols or crypto infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of blockchain network infrastructure that abstracts blockchain complexity into reliable platform APIs.
• Lead multi-quarter initiatives including new chain integrations, re-architecture efforts, and data migrations that improve system latency, reliability, and cost.
• Define and maintain APIs, SLOs, and observability for the systems you build, including on-call ownership.
• Partner with product and platform teams to establish data contracts and ship SDKs and platform primitives that drive adoption across Coinbase.
• Build deep technical context across multiple top blockchain protocols and apply that knowledge to simplify cross-chain operations.

Skills

Blockchain protocols

Distributed systems

Microservices

APIs

Tools

Golang

Kafka

Redis

MongoDB

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Blockchain Networks team. You will build infrastructure that integrates blockchain protocols with Coinbase's internal services for new assets, stablecoins, and staking, delivering reliable APIs and platform primitives.

Responsibilities include leading multi-quarter initiatives, defining APIs and SLOs, and collaborating with product teams to drive cross-chain adoption while maintaining high performance and cost efficiency.