Senior Blockchain Infrastructure Engineer

Coinbase; Frankfort (KY); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase’s Blockchain Networks team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build infrastructure that integrates blockchain protocols with internal services for new assets, stablecoins, and staking.

You will own multi-quarter initiatives, define APIs and SLOs, and ship platform primitives that improve latency, reliability, and cost of the crypto stack. Collaborate with product teams to drive broad adoption across Coinbase.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing, scaling and maintaining distributed systems.
• Ability to decompose complex systems into well-bounded microservices with clear API contracts.
• Hands-on experience with at least two: Golang, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB.

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

Microservices

Blockchain protocols

Generative AI usage

Tools

Golang

Kafka

Redis

MongoDB

Job description

Coinbase’s Blockchain Networks team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build infrastructure that integrates blockchain protocols with internal services for new assets, stablecoins, and staking.

You will own multi-quarter initiatives, define APIs and SLOs, and ship platform primitives that improve latency, reliability, and cost of the crypto stack. Collaborate with product teams to drive broad adoption across Coinbase.