Senior Software Engineer, Blockchain Infra (Remote-First)

Coinbase, Inc.; Topeka (KS); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Blockchain Networks team within the Platform group.

You will own the design of blockchain network infrastructure, delivering platform APIs and primitives while leading multi-quarter initiatives to improve latency, reliability, and cost across Coinbase's crypto stack. You will collaborate with product and platform teams to define data contracts, ship SDKs, and drive adoption of new assets, stablecoins, and staking technologies.

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, or MongoDB.
• Direct experience with blockchain protocols or crypto infrastructure (Ethereum, Bitcoin, or similar).

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 improving 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

Software engineering

Distributed systems

On-call ownership

Blockchain knowledge

Tools

Golang

Kafka

Redis

MongoDB

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Blockchain Networks team within the Platform group.

You will own the design of blockchain network infrastructure, delivering platform APIs and primitives while leading multi-quarter initiatives to improve latency, reliability, and cost across Coinbase's crypto stack. You will collaborate with product and platform teams to define data contracts, ship SDKs, and drive adoption of new assets, stablecoins, and staking technologies.