Senior Blockchain Infra Engineer (Remote)

Coinbase, Inc.; Montpelier (VT); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build blockchain network infrastructure that exposes reliable platform APIs and supports new assets, stablecoins, and staking. You will own multi-quarter initiatives, driving latency, reliability, and cost improvements across the crypto stack.

You will design APIs, SLOs, and observability, while collaborating with product and platform teams to enable SDKs and platform primitives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with ownership of production services in a service-oriented architecture.
• Proven track record designing, scaling, and maintaining distributed systems handling high-throughput, low-latency workloads.
• Hands-on experience with at least two of the following: Golang, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB.
• Direct experience with blockchain protocols or crypto infrastructure (e.g., Ethereum, Bitcoin, or similar L1/L2 networks).
• Demonstrated ability to decompose complex systems into well-bounded microservices with clear API contracts.

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

Distributed systems

Blockchain protocols

Tools

Golang

Kafka

Redis

MongoDB

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build blockchain network infrastructure that exposes reliable platform APIs and supports new assets, stablecoins, and staking. You will own multi-quarter initiatives, driving latency, reliability, and cost improvements across the crypto stack.

You will design APIs, SLOs, and observability, while collaborating with product and platform teams to enable SDKs and platform primitives.