Remote-First Senior Blockchain Node Performance Engineer

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

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the CB Node team in thePlatform organization. You will own performance optimization across the blockchain node stack and build observability and failover capabilities to keep nodes reliable at scale.

You will define SLOs/SLIs, collaborate with protocol engineers, and ensure upgrades meet resource efficiency targets while minimizing waste. This role emphasizes strong profiling, Go expertise, and cost-aware design.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering with performance optimization in production systems.
• Experience operating distributed systems at scale.
• Backend programming in Go and profiling/observability tooling.
• Track record reducing infrastructure costs through optimization.
• Experience with blockchain nodes or crypto infra 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

Go programming

Distributed systems

Profiling & observability

Cost optimization

Blockchain nodes

Tools

pprof

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the CB Node team in thePlatform organization. You will own performance optimization across the blockchain node stack and build observability and failover capabilities to keep nodes reliable at scale.

You will define SLOs/SLIs, collaborate with protocol engineers, and ensure upgrades meet resource efficiency targets while minimizing waste. This role emphasizes strong profiling, Go expertise, and cost-aware design.