Senior Blockchain Networks Engineer — Build Scalable Crypto

Coinbase; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build blockchain network infrastructure and APIs that power new assets, stablecoins, and staking. You will own long-running initiatives, optimize latency and cost, and partner with product teams to ship SDKs and platform primitives for broad adoption.

Join a remote-first, hybrid-friendly company that gathers quarterly in-person surges to accelerate delivery and collaboration across Coinbase's Platform group.

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.
• 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 (e.g., Bitcoin, Ethereum) and apply that knowledge to simplify cross-chain operations

Skills

Golang

Kafka

Redis

MongoDB

Blockchain protocol exposure

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build blockchain network infrastructure and APIs that power new assets, stablecoins, and staking. You will own long-running initiatives, optimize latency and cost, and partner with product teams to ship SDKs and platform primitives for broad adoption.

Join a remote-first, hybrid-friendly company that gathers quarterly in-person surges to accelerate delivery and collaboration across Coinbase's Platform group.