Senior Blockchain Network Engineer — Remote

Coinbase; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Blockchain Networks team to build infrastructure that abstracts blockchain complexity into reliable platform APIs and services. Youll own multi-quarter initiatives and ship platform primitives that improve latency, reliability, and cost of the crypto stack.

Youll define APIs, SLOs, and observability, collaborate with product teams, and drive cross-chain integrations for assets, stablecoins, and staking, while maintaining strong ownership of

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with ownership of production services.
• Experience 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 infra tech.
• Direct experience with blockchain protocols or crypto infrastructure.
• Ability to decompose monoliths into microservices with clear API contracts.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive 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

Golang

Kafka

Redis

MongoDB

Blockchain experience

Microservices

AI in operations

Tools

APIs design

Service-oriented architecture

Job description

Coinbase seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Blockchain Networks team to build infrastructure that abstracts blockchain complexity into reliable platform APIs and services. Youll own multi-quarter initiatives and ship platform primitives that improve latency, reliability, and cost of the crypto stack.

Youll define APIs, SLOs, and observability, collaborate with product teams, and drive cross-chain integrations for assets, stablecoins, and staking, while maintaining strong ownership of