Senior Software Engineer, Blockchain Platform Nodes

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🕒 August 20

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $186.1k - $218.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛓️ Blockchain Engineer

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Coinbase

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

💰 $21.4M Post-IPO Equity on 2022-11

Consulting • Crypto • Finance

Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform that allows individuals and institutions to buy, sell, and trade various crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The company offers advanced trading tools, institutional solutions, and a self-hosted wallet for storing and managing cryptocurrencies. With a strong focus on security and transparency, Coinbase provides a trusted platform used by millions globally. It supports various features including staking, earning rewards, and spending crypto through their cards. Additionally, Coinbase provides developer tools and APIs for building onchain applications, making it a comprehensive hub for engaging in the crypto economy.

📋 Description

• Join the CB Node team within Coinbase’s Platform organization • Run and optimize blockchain nodes powering Coinbase-supported assets across 55 protocols, including Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana • Perform deep performance analysis and optimization across the blockchain node stack • Diagnose resource consumption root causes and implement system-level fixes that reduce infrastructure spend while maintaining reliability SLOs • Build observability, health-check, and automated failover capabilities for blockchain nodes • Drive right-sizing across the node fleet through workload profiling and capacity modeling • Partner with protocol integration engineers, wallet teams, and indexer teams on platform-wide performance improvements • Define and implement SLOs and SLIs for node services • Support protocol upgrades and node operations, validating resource efficiency and regression-testing blockchain versions before production rollout

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with deep expertise in systems-level performance analysis, profiling, and optimization of production infrastructure • Hands-on experience operating distributed systems at scale, including diagnosing resource bottlenecks, tuning service performance, and managing capacity across heterogeneous workloads • Proficiency in backend programming (Go preferred) and systems tooling for profiling, tracing, and observability, such as pprof, Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana • Track record of reducing infrastructure costs through engineering optimization, with measurable outcomes • Experience with blockchain nodes, consensus protocols, or crypto infrastructure is strongly preferred • Familiarity with how different protocols behave under load and during upgrades • Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight • Must be located in the USA

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity eligibility • Bonus eligibility • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k) • Quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges”