2 months ago
Base Salary
$218k - $257k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own Coinbase’s multi-year technical strategy for Solana staking across validator performance, protocol participation, and product integration.
- Lead validator optimization efforts covering vote accuracy, block production, MEV strategies, commission tuning, and stake distribution tooling.
- Provide technical authority on the Solana runtime, consensus, staking economics, validator clients, and protocol upgrades.
- Architect scalable staking integrations with Retail and Institutional Staking product and engineering teams.
- Represent Coinbase in the Solana ecosystem through relationships, protocol governance, and conference speaking.
- Build production infrastructure for validator operations, monitoring, automation, and reliability, while mentoring IC4–IC5 engineers.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with extensive hands-on Solana protocol experience.
- Deep familiarity with Solana runtime, validator mechanics, staking economics, Tower BFT consensus, and validator clients at the source-code level.
- Production-level proficiency in Rust and/or Go and experience building and operating complex distributed infrastructure at scale.
- Established Solana ecosystem relationships and a track record of public speaking or protocol governance participation.
- Ability to define multi-quarter technical strategies, solve ambiguous large-scope problems, and align product, business, and executive stakeholders.
- Familiarity with liquid staking, stake pools, restaking protocols, or comparative proof-of-stake protocols such as Ethereum or Cosmos.
- Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called surges.
- Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), equity, and bonus eligibility are noted in the compensation and benefits notice.
- Annual base salary is listed separately from equity and bonus compensation.
About Coinbase
Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world. The most trusted crypto platform, Coinbase stores more digital assets than any other company and is building the everything exchange — one place to access crypto, equities, derivatives, prediction markets, and more. Coinbase serves consumers through its suite of financial apps, institutions through Coinbase Prime, and developers through the Coinbase Developer Platform. Every experience runs on Coinbase's full-stack platform powering the future of finance: secure custody, deep exchange liquidity, stablecoin infrastructure, and global settlement rails — all built on a decade-plus foundation of security and compliance.