Senior Blockchain Networks Engineer - Remote-First Impact

Coinbase, Inc.; Dover (DE); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is searching for a Senior Software Engineer on the Blockchain Networks team within the Platform group to build the infrastructure that integrates blockchain protocols with Coinbase's internal services for new assets, stablecoins, and staking.

You will own multi-quarter technical initiatives and ship platform primitives that directly improve latency, reliability, and cost of our crypto stack. You will design and maintain APIs, SLOs, and observability, with on-call ownership, and

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 handling high-throughput, low-latency workloads.
• Hands-on experience with at least two of the following: Golang, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB.
• Direct experience with blockchain protocols or crypto infrastructure (e.g., Ethereum, Bitcoin).
• 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

Blockchain concepts

Ownership of production services

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Golang

Kafka

Redis

MongoDB

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is searching for a Senior Software Engineer on the Blockchain Networks team within the Platform group to build the infrastructure that integrates blockchain protocols with Coinbase's internal services for new assets, stablecoins, and staking.

You will own multi-quarter technical initiatives and ship platform primitives that directly improve latency, reliability, and cost of our crypto stack. You will design and maintain APIs, SLOs, and observability, with on-call ownership, and