Senior Software Engineer, Blockchain Platform (Blockchain Data Processing)
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, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.
Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.
While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.
We’re building an industry-leading, ultra-low-latency indexing platform that ingests and indexes data across major blockchains. It powers teams across Coinbase and external developers via the Coinbase Developer Platform
We’re building the real-time backbone that powers diverse use cases. You’ll work across a modern streaming stack (gRPC, Kafka, and more) to design, build, and operate low-latency services at scale. As a small, high-impact team partnering broadly, we take a platform-first approach—delivering platform primitives, SDKs, and tooling that accelerate developer velocity and reduce time-to-market.
What you’ll be doing:
- Design, build, and operate low-latency indexing/streaming services on gRPC, Kafka, and our 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
What we look for in you:
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering
- Very strong in distributed systems or data systems. If you are experienced with Crypto, it’s a big plus!
- You’ve experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
- You’re passionate about building an indexing platform that brings the Web3 and Web2 world together
Nice to haves:
- Experience designing and developing distributed systems
- You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers)
- You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.)
- You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
- You’ve worked with Golang, Kafka, Redis, S3, Clickhouse, MongoDB
- You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems
- Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.
Job #: GPBE05US
*Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience
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Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include bonus eligibility + equity eligibility + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
Coinbase is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. For US applicants, you may view the Employee Rights and the Know Your Rights notices by clicking on their corresponding links. Additionally, Coinbase participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.
Coinbase is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact us at accommodations[at]coinbase.com to let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. For quick access to screen reading technology compatible with this site click here to download a free compatible screen reader (free step by step tutorial can be found here).
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AI Disclosure
For select roles, Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. A human recruiter will review your interview responses, provided in the form of a voice recording and/or transcript, to assess them against the qualifications and characteristics outlined in the job description.
For select roles, Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate.
The above pilots are for testing purposes and Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment. To request a reasonable accommodation due to disability, please contact accommodations[at]coinbase.com
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