Senior Blockchain Network Engineer — Platform API Innovator

Omaze; United States; On-site; USD 186,065 - 218,900; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first company

Quarterly in-person surge sessions

Job summary

Coinbase, a remote-first company, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Blockchain Networks team. You will own infrastructure that exposes reliable APIs for new assets, stablecoins, and staking. Expect to lead cross-chain projects and improve latency, reliability, and cost of the crypto stack.

You will define APIs, SLOs, and observability, while collaborating with product teams to drive adoption. Strong background in distributed systems and blockchain is essential, with a bias toward

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with ownership of production services.
• Experience designing, scaling, and maintaining distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with at least two of: Golang, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB.
• Direct experience with blockchain protocols or crypto infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to decompose complex systems into well-bounded microservices with clear API contracts.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

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

Production services ownership

APIs & contracts

Observability

On-call ownership

Tools

Golang

Kafka

Redis

MongoDB

Job description

Coinbase, a remote-first company, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Blockchain Networks team. You will own infrastructure that exposes reliable APIs for new assets, stablecoins, and staking. Expect to lead cross-chain projects and improve latency, reliability, and cost of the crypto stack.

You will define APIs, SLOs, and observability, while collaborating with product teams to drive adoption. Strong background in distributed systems and blockchain is essential, with a bias toward