Remote-First Senior Blockchain Node Engineer - Performance

Coinbase, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the CB Node team within the Platform organization. You will focus on performance optimization and reliability across the blockchain platform stack, building observability and health-check systems to keep nodes reliable at scale.

You will own deep performance analysis, drive capacity planning, and collaborate with protocol integration, wallet, and indexer teams. The role emphasizes cost efficiency, resource-aware upgrades, and measurable impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with systems-level performance analysis.
• Experience operating distributed systems at scale and tuning service performance.
• Proficiency in backend programming (Go) and observability tools.
• Proven track record of reducing infrastructure costs through optimization.
• Experience with blockchain nodes or crypto infra is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own deep performance analysis and optimization 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.
• Drive a right-sizing initiative across the node fleet, profiling workloads, identifying over-provisioned instances, and establishing capacity models that balance cost efficiency with headroom for reliability.
• Partner with protocol integration engineers, wallet teams, and indexer teams to extend performance improvements across the full blockchain platform stack, not just the node layer.
• Lead the definition and implementation of SLOs and SLIs for node services, creating the measurement framework that gives the team confidence in reliability without relying on over-provisioning.
• Support protocol upgrades and node operations with a performance-first lens, ensuring new blockchain versions are validated for resource efficiency and regression-tested before production rollout.

Skills

Performance analysis

Distributed systems

Backend programming (Go)

Observability

Cost optimization

Generative AI governance

Tools

pprof

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the CB Node team within the Platform organization. You will focus on performance optimization and reliability across the blockchain platform stack, building observability and health-check systems to keep nodes reliable at scale.

You will own deep performance analysis, drive capacity planning, and collaborate with protocol integration, wallet, and indexer teams. The role emphasizes cost efficiency, resource-aware upgrades, and measurable impact.