Coinbase
Software Engineer, Blockchain Platform Nodes
$152K–$179K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Aug 20, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
US - Remote Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only) - Experience
- 2+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Optimizes and operates Coinbase’s blockchain node platform, improving performance, reliability, observability, and infrastructure efficiency across multiple protocols.
What you'll do
- Analyze node-stack performance and implement fixes that reduce resource use and infrastructure costs while maintaining reliability.
- Build observability, health checks, automated failover, and capacity improvements for the node fleet.
- Partner across teams on performance improvements, SLOs and SLIs, and protocol upgrades and regression testing.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of software engineering experience with exposure to systems-level performance analysis, profiling, or production infrastructure optimization.
- Experience operating distributed systems, diagnosing resource bottlenecks, tuning services, or managing capacity.
- Proficiency in backend programming and familiarity with profiling, tracing, and observability tools.
- Ability to improve infrastructure efficiency through engineering optimization rather than simply scaling resources.
Nice to have
- Go is preferred.
- Exposure to blockchain nodes, consensus protocols, or crypto infrastructure.
Pay
$152,405 — $179,300 USD annual base salary (excluding equity and bonus)
Tools
Go, pprof, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana
AI focus
Use generative AI responsibly, with human oversight, to produce business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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