Senior Software Engineer, Blockchain Platform Nodes

Coinbase Senior Software Engineer, Blockchain Platform Nodes. Base salary $186,065–$218,900 USD (excluding equity and bonus). Remote within USA with quarterly in-person surges. The CB Node team runs all blockchain nodes powering every asset Coinbase offers.

The CB Node team runs all the blockchain nodes that power every asset Coinbase offers to customers — currently 55 unique protocols across Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, and beyond. Focus on performance optimization and reliability across the blockchain platform stack. Responsibilities: - Own deep performance analysis and optimization across the blockchain node stack, diagnosing root causes of resource consumption and implementing system-level fixes - Build observability, health-check, and automated failover capabilities for blockchain nodes - Drive a right-sizing initiative across the node fleet, profiling workloads and establishing capacity models - Partner with protocol integration engineers, wallet teams, and indexer teams - Lead the definition and implementation of SLOs and SLIs for node services - Support protocol upgrades and node operations with a performance-first lens

- 5+ years in software engineering with deep expertise in systems-level performance analysis, profiling, and optimization of production infrastructure - Hands-on experience operating distributed systems at scale (diagnosing resource bottlenecks, tuning performance, managing capacity) - Proficiency in backend programming (Go preferred) and systems tooling (pprof, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana) - Track record of reducing infrastructure costs through engineering optimization rather than simply scaling resources - Experience with blockchain nodes, consensus protocols, or crypto infrastructure strongly preferred

Base salary $186,065–$218,900 USD (excluding equity and bonus) Remote — USA, with quarterly in-person surges