Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising in our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency; it's a place to be pushed past your perceived limits.

What You'll Do

• Own the design and delivery of blockchain network infrastructure that abstracts blockchain complexity into reliable, platform APIs.
• Lead multi-quarter initiatives including new chain integrations, re-architecture efforts, and data migrations that improve system latency, reliability, and cost.
• Define and maintain APIs, SLOs, and observability for the systems you build, including on-call ownership.
• Partner with product and platform teams to establish data contracts and ship SDKs and platform primitives that drive adoption across Coinbase.
• Build deep technical context across multiple top blockchain protocols (e.g., Bitcoin, Ethereum) and apply that knowledge to simplify cross-chain operations.

Required Skills & Experience

We are looking for candidates with:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of production services in a service-oriented architecture.
• A proven track record designing, scaling, and maintaining distributed systems handling high-throughput, low-latency workloads.
• Hands-on experience with at least two of the following: Golang, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, or similar infrastructure technologies.
• Direct experience with blockchain protocols or crypto infrastructure (e.g., integrating with Ethereum, Bitcoin, or similar L1/L2 networks).
• Demonstrated ability to decompose complex systems into well-bounded microservices with clear API contracts.