Senior Staff Blockchain Platform Architect—Remote-First

Coinbase, Inc.; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 254,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Blockchain Platform to shape the infrastructure that powers our wallet, indexing, and asset systems. You will lead multi-team architectural efforts and drive strategic roadmaps across nodes, wallets, and lifecycle tooling with a focus on security, reliability, and scale.

You will own cross-functional initiatives, push for performance improvements, and influence executive decisions while expanding capabilities across 60+ networks and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years operating at a staff-plus level designing and scaling high-throughput transaction systems requiring strong auditability, idempotency, and financial precision.
• Hands-on experience with blockchain protocols at node or protocol level (e.g., EVM chains, Solana, Bitcoin, L2s), with depth in staking infrastructure, bridging protocols, or tokenization systems.
• Proven track record of leading large-scale, multi-team architectural initiatives from design through production at a company operating critical infrastructure at global scale.
• Experience applying AI or agent-based automation to reduce operational toil in platform or infrastructure contexts, with measurable results in efficiency or reliability gains.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for Blockchain Platform, spanning nodes, wallets, indexing, and asset lifecycle, to support new chain integrations, new products, and significant growth in onchain transaction volume.
• Architect and evolve core platform infrastructure, including nodes, indexers, wallet systems, and liquidity primitives, for high availability, low latency, cost efficiency, and security at global scale.
• Lead end-to-end design and rollout of large, cross-team architectural initiatives (e.g., wallet stack rearchitecture, indexing stack redesign, asset identifier system), breaking high ambiguity into clear milestones and measurable outcomes.
• Drive engineering standards for correctness, security, reliability, testing, and observability across all crypto asset operations, including transaction finality, key management, reconciliation, and failure-mode handling.
• Own data-driven reliability improvements by using observability signals (transaction success rates, node reliability, indexing latency, on-call burden) to identify structural platform gaps and lead systematic remediation.
• Represent Blockchain Platform in executive and cross-org forums, communicating tradeoffs, aligning stakeholders on strategy, and securing buy-in for high-impact technical bets in areas like Yield and Stablecoins.

Skills

Staff+ leadership

Blockchain protocols

High-throughput systems

AI automation for ops

Generative AI governance

Executive stakeholder comms

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Blockchain Platform to shape the infrastructure that powers our wallet, indexing, and asset systems. You will lead multi-team architectural efforts and drive strategic roadmaps across nodes, wallets, and lifecycle tooling with a focus on security, reliability, and scale.

You will own cross-functional initiatives, push for performance improvements, and influence executive decisions while expanding capabilities across 60+ networks and