Software Engineer, Blockchain Platform Nodes

Summary

Coinbase is a company focused on increasing economic freedom and building the future of finance. The Software Engineer will join the CB Node team to optimize performance and reliability across blockchain infrastructure, reduce infrastructure costs, and build observability and health-check systems for blockchain nodes at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own performance analysis and optimization tasks across the blockchain node stack, diagnosing root causes of resource consumption and implementing system-level fixes that reduce infrastructure spend while maintaining reliability SLOs
• Build observability, health-check, and automated failover capabilities for blockchain nodes, ensuring the team can detect degradation and respond proactively rather than reactively scaling resources
• Execute right-sizing improvements across the node fleet, profiling workloads, identifying over-provisioned instances, and contributing to capacity models that balance cost efficiency with reliability
• Partner with protocol integration engineers, wallet teams, and indexer teams to extend performance improvements across the blockchain platform stack
• Support the definition and implementation of SLOs and SLIs for node services, helping create measurement frameworks that give the team confidence in reliability without relying on over-provisioning
• Support protocol upgrades and node operations with a performance-first lens, validating new blockchain versions for resource efficiency and regression-testing before production rollout

Skills

• 2+ years of experience in software engineering with exposure to systems-level performance analysis, profiling, or optimization of production infrastructure
• Experience operating distributed systems, including diagnosing resource bottlenecks, tuning service performance, or managing capacity
• Proficiency in backend programming (Go preferred) and familiarity with systems tooling for profiling, tracing, and observability (e.g., pprof, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Demonstrated ability to improve infrastructure efficiency through engineering optimization rather than simply scaling resources
• Exposure to blockchain nodes, consensus protocols, or crypto infrastructure is a plus; curiosity about how different protocols behave under load and during upgrades
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 2+ years of experience in software engineering with exposure to systems-level performance analysis, profiling, or optimization of production infrastructure
• Experience operating distributed systems, including diagnosing resource bottlenecks, tuning service performance, or managing capacity
• Proficiency in backend programming (Go preferred) and familiarity with systems tooling for profiling, tracing, and observability (e.g., pprof, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Demonstrated ability to improve infrastructure efficiency through engineering optimization rather than simply scaling resources
• Exposure to blockchain nodes, consensus protocols, or crypto infrastructure is a plus; curiosity about how different protocols behave under load and during upgrades
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Benefits

• Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility
• Benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k))
• Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company