Remote-First Senior Staff Blockchain Platform Engineer

Coinbase, Inc.; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 254,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Blockchain Platform team. You will define the technical vision for infrastructure that connects Coinbase products to the crypto economy, including nodes, indexers, wallets, and orchestration systems across 60+ networks.

You will lead multi-team architectural initiatives and drive reliability, security, and performance at global scale, with quarterly in-person surges and a remote-first culture.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with high-throughput transaction systems.
• Hands-on with blockchain protocols at node or protocol level (EVM, Solana, Bitcoin, L2s).
• Proven record leading large multi-team architectural initiatives at global scale.
• Experience applying AI/agent-based automation to reduce operational toil.
• Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive multi-quarter technical strategy for Blockchain Platform.
• Architect and evolve core platform infrastructure for high availability and security at global scale.
• Lead end-to-end design of large cross-team architectural initiatives.
• Drive engineering standards for correctness, security, reliability, testing, and observability.
• Own data-driven reliability improvements using observability signals.
• Represent Blockchain Platform in executive forums and gain buy-in for high-impact bets.

Skills

Senior engineer

Staff-plus leadership

Blockchain protocols

AI / automation in infra

Generative AI governance

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Blockchain Platform team. You will define the technical vision for infrastructure that connects Coinbase products to the crypto economy, including nodes, indexers, wallets, and orchestration systems across 60+ networks.

You will lead multi-team architectural initiatives and drive reliability, security, and performance at global scale, with quarterly in-person surges and a remote-first culture.