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Salary: USD 152,405 - 179,300 / annual
Coinbase's Blockchain Data Platform team is building an ultra-low-latency indexing platform that ingests, normalizes, and serves data across major blockchains. This platform powers internal teams and external developers via the Coinbase Developer Platform. The team is small, high-impact, and AI-native, taking a platform-first approach to make blockchain indexing as accessible as building on a managed database.
In this role, you will build and operate distributed systems at the core of this platform, owning services end-to-end from design through production. You'll be responsible for real-time blockchain data ingestion, indexing, and query systems, handling everything from data modeling and code to rollout and observability. Key responsibilities include owning delivery of initiatives such as new chain integrations, migrations, and backfills while driving improvements to latency, reliability, and cost. You'll partner with product and platform teams to define data contracts and contribute to SDKs and primitives that drive adoption across Coinbase and external developers. You'll execute architecture and performance improvements across the indexing stack, applying strong systems design fundamentals around partitioning, consistency, stream processing, and storage boundaries. You'll also support engineering quality across the team through code reviews, testing rigor, and leveraging AI tools to ship faster and reduce operational burden.
Coinbase is a remote-first but not remote-only company. Expect to gather quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called "surges."
REQUIREMENTS:
- 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
- Ability to utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
