Senior Software Engineer, Blockchain Platform (Blockchain Data Processing)

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Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission, Coinbase is seeking a candidate passionate about crypto and blockchain technology to help build an industry-leading, ultra-low-latency indexing platform that ingests and indexes data across major blockchains. The platform powers internal teams and external developers via the Coinbase Developer Platform and provides a real-time backbone for diverse use cases.

The team works across a modern streaming stack (gRPC, Kafka, and more) to design, build, and operate low-latency services at scale. The team takes a platform-first approach—delivering platform primitives, SDKs, and tooling that accelerate developer velocity and reduce time-to-market.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate low-latency indexing/streaming services on gRPC, Kafka, and the team’s real-time stack.
• Own APIs, schemas, SLOs, observability, and on-call for the systems you run.
• Lead multi-month initiatives (new chains, re-architecture, migrations/backfills) to improve latency, reliability, and cost.
• Partner across teams to define data contracts and ship SDKs/platform primitives that drive adoption.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Very strong experience in distributed systems or data systems. Crypto experience is a big plus.
• Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact.
• Passion for building an indexing platform that brings Web3 and Web2 together.

Nice to haves

• Experience designing and developing distributed systems.
• Experience scaling rapidly (e.g., company growth from ~10 to 100s of engineers).
• Experience with blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.).
• Experience decomposing large monoliths into microservices.
• Experience with Golang, Kafka, Redis, S3, ClickHouse, MongoDB.
• Experience building financial, high-reliability, or security-sensitive systems.
• Crypto-forward experience (onchain activity, ENS, dApps, interacting with Ethereum addresses).

Compensation and benefits

• Pay Range: $186,065—$218,900 USD (target annual salary; full-time offers also include bonus eligibility, equity eligibility, and benefits).
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, HSA contributions, disability & life insurance, wellness stipend, mobile/internet reimbursement, connections stipend, volunteer time off, fertility counseling, generous time off/leave policy, and the option to get paid in digital currency.

Additional details

• Job #: GPBE05US
• #LI-Remote — Coinbase is remote-first but not remote-only; in-person participation (team and company offsites) is required throughout the year.
• Candidates may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period.
• Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
• Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate onchain experience.