Software Engineer - Crypto Data Foundations

Coinbase, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is looking for a distributed systems engineer to build and operate low-latency blockchain data ingestion and indexing services.

You will own end-to-end delivery from design through production, shape data contracts, and contribute to SDKs used across Coinbase and external developers. You’ll work on real-time ingestion, migrations, backfills, and architecture improvements, applying strong systems design fundamentals while leveraging AI-assisted tooling to accelerate delivery and

Qualifications

• Experience building distributed or data systems in production.
• Strong design fundamentals: partitioning, consistency/availability tradeoffs, stream processing.
• Backend proficiency in Go and/or Python, with relevant tech stack exposure.
• Ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear designs with measurable impact.
• Familiarity with blockchain/crypto data is a plus; experience with data contracts and AI tooling is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate distributed systems for real-time blockchain data ingestion and indexing, end-to-end ownership.
• Deliver key initiatives like new chain integrations, migrations, and backfills to improve latency and reliability.
• Collaborate with product/platform teams to define data contracts and contribute to SDKs and primitives.
• Apply architecture and performance improvements across the indexing stack, focusing on partitioning and storage boundaries.
• Support code quality through reviews, testing rigor, and AI-assisted tooling.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend Go/Python

System design

Ambiguity to design

AI tooling usage

Quality & observability

Tools

Kafka

gRPC

Redis

S3

ClickHouse

MongoDB

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

The Blockchain Data Platform team within the Platform organization builds an ultra-low-latency indexing platform that ingests, normalizes, and serves data across major blockchains, powering teams across Coinbase and external developers via the Coinbase Developer Platform. We're a small, high-impact, AI-native team taking a platform-first approach, shipping the primitives, SDKs, and tooling that make blockchain indexing as easy as building on a managed database. You'll build and operate the distributed systems at the core of this platform, owning services end-to-end from design through production.

What you’ll do:

• Build and operate distributed systems for real-time blockchain data ingestion, indexing, and query, owning services end-to-end from design docs and data modeling through code, rollout, and observability.
• Own delivery of key initiatives such as new chain integrations, migrations, and backfills, driving improvements to latency, reliability, and cost.
• Partner with product and platform teams to define data contracts and contribute to SDKs and primitives that drive adoption across Coinbase and external developers.
• Execute architecture and performance improvements across the indexing stack, applying strong systems design fundamentals around partitioning, consistency, stream processing, and storage boundaries.
• Support engineering quality across the team through code reviews, testing rigor, and leveraging AI tools to ship faster and reduce operational burden.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 2+ years of software engineering experience building and operating distributed or data systems in production.
• Solid systems design fundamentals including partitioning, consistency/availability tradeoffs, stream processing, and storage/compute boundaries.
• Proficiency in a backend language such as Go and/or Python, with familiarity across technologies like Kafka, gRPC, Redis, S3, ClickHouse, or MongoDB.
• Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear designs and shipped solutions with measurable impact.
• Blockchain or crypto data experience is a plus, including familiarity with chain data structures, finality, reorgs, RPC nodes, or wallets.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Pay Transparency Notice:Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$152,405 — $179,300 USD

• Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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