Senior Blockchain Network Engineer — Platform Infrastructure

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

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Blockchain Networks team in the Platform group. You will build infrastructure that abstracts blockchain complexity into reliable APIs, enabling new assets, stablecoins, and staking.

Own multi-quarter initiatives, ship platform primitives, and improve latency, reliability, and cost. You will work with product and platform teams to define data contracts, ship SDKs, and ensure cross-chain operations across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other

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 with high throughput and low latency.
• Hands-on experience with at least two of: Golang, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, or similar infrastructure technologies.
• 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.
• Uses generative AI responsibly, with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and improve 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

Golang

Kafka

Redis

MongoDB

Blockchain protocols

API design

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Blockchain Networks team in the Platform group. You will build infrastructure that abstracts blockchain complexity into reliable APIs, enabling new assets, stablecoins, and staking.

Own multi-quarter initiatives, ship platform primitives, and improve latency, reliability, and cost. You will work with product and platform teams to define data contracts, ship SDKs, and ensure cross-chain operations across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other