Coinbase
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Blockchain Platform
$254K–$299K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 17, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
US - Remote Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only) - Experience
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years operating at a staff-plus level.
About the job
Defines the technical vision and leads development of Coinbase’s blockchain infrastructure, including nodes, wallets, indexers, and asset systems supporting products across blockchain networks.
What you'll do
- Set multi-quarter technical strategy and architect scalable, secure blockchain platform infrastructure.
- Lead cross-team architectural initiatives from design through rollout, setting milestones and measurable outcomes.
- Improve reliability and engineering standards; represent the platform in executive and cross-organizational forums.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years at staff-plus level designing and scaling high-throughput transaction systems requiring auditability, idempotency, and financial precision.
- Hands-on node- or protocol-level experience with one or more blockchain protocols, with depth in staking infrastructure, bridging protocols, or tokenization systems.
- Track record leading large-scale, multi-team architectural initiatives through production at a company operating critical infrastructure at global scale.
- Experience applying AI or agent-based automation in platform or infrastructure contexts with measurable efficiency or reliability gains; responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.
Pay
$253,895 — $298,700 USD annual base salary (excluding equity and bonus)
Tools
EVM chains, Solana, Bitcoin, L2s
AI focus
Apply AI or agent-based automation to reduce operational toil in platform or infrastructure contexts, with measurable efficiency or reliability gains; use generative AI responsibly with human oversight.
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