Senior Blockchain Systems Engineer Remote-First

Coinbase Bridge; United States; Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You'll own multi-quarter initiatives, define APIs and observability, and collaborate with product teams to drive adoption across Coinbase. Strong distributed-systems experience and hands-on work with Go, Kafka, Redis, or MongoDB are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with ownership of production services in a service-oriented architecture.
• Experience designing, scaling, and maintaining distributed systems with high throughput and low latency.
• Ability to decompose monoliths into well-bounded microservices with clear API contracts.
• Experience with at least two of Golang, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, or similar infra.
• Knowledge of integrating with blockchain protocols or crypto infrastructure is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver blockchain network infrastructure that abstracts blockchain complexity into reliable, platform APIs.
• Lead multi-quarter initiatives including new chain integrations, re-architecture and data migrations to improve 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.
• Build deep technical context across multiple top blockchain protocols and apply that knowledge to simplify cross-chain operations.

Skills

Ownership of production services

Distributed systems design

Decompose complex systems into micro

Generative AI with human oversight

On-call ownership / SLOs

5+ years of software engineering

Tools

Golang

Kafka

Redis

MongoDB

Job description

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

You'll own multi-quarter initiatives, define APIs and observability, and collaborate with product teams to drive adoption across Coinbase. Strong distributed-systems experience and hands-on work with Go, Kafka, Redis, or MongoDB are required.