Coinbase
Software Engineer - Crypto Data Foundations
$152K–$179K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
US - Remote Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only) - Experience
- 2+ years of software engineering experience building and operating distributed or data systems in production.
About the job
Build and operate distributed systems for real-time blockchain data ingestion, indexing, and querying, powering Coinbase products and external developers.
What you'll do
- Own services end-to-end, from design and data modeling through deployment and observability.
- Deliver chain integrations, migrations, and backfills while improving latency, reliability, and cost.
- Define data contracts and contribute to SDKs, platform primitives, and engineering quality.
What they ask for
- 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.
- Ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear designs and shipped solutions with measurable impact.
- Use generative AI responsibly, with human oversight, to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with technologies such as Kafka, gRPC, Redis, S3, ClickHouse, or MongoDB.
- Blockchain or crypto data experience, including familiarity with chain data structures, finality, reorgs, RPC nodes, or wallets.
Pay
$152,405 — $179,300 USD annual base salary (excluding equity and bonus)
Tools
Go, Python, Kafka, gRPC, Redis, S3, ClickHouse, MongoDB
AI focus
Use generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to produce business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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