4 hours ago
Base Salary
$186k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver blockchain network infrastructure that abstracts protocol complexity into reliable platform APIs.
- Lead multi-quarter initiatives including chain integrations, re-architecture efforts, and data migrations.
- Define and maintain APIs, SLOs, observability, and on-call ownership for production systems.
- Partner with product and platform teams to establish data contracts and deliver SDKs and platform primitives.
- Develop technical expertise across blockchain protocols such as Bitcoin and Ethereum and simplify cross-chain operations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with ownership of production services in a service-oriented architecture.
- Experience designing, scaling, and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with at least two of Golang, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, or similar infrastructure technologies.
- Direct experience with blockchain protocols or crypto infrastructure, such as Ethereum, Bitcoin, or similar L1/L2 networks.
- Experience decomposing monoliths or legacy architectures into well-bounded microservices with clear API contracts.
- Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- 401(k) benefits.
- Potential equity and bonus eligibility are mentioned separately from base salary.
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About Coinbase
Coinbase builds a cryptocurrency platform for consumers, institutions, and developers to buy, sell, store, and use digital assets. Its products include the Coinbase app/exchange, Coinbase Prime for institutions, custody services, and developer APIs, and it earns primarily from transaction fees and subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and now remote-first, Coinbase is a public company (NASDAQ: COIN) serving major crypto markets in the U.S. and abroad.