6 hours ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$152k - $179k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and operate distributed systems for real-time blockchain data ingestion, indexing, and querying.
- Own services end-to-end from design and data modeling through implementation, rollout, and observability.
- Deliver chain integrations, migrations, and backfills while improving latency, reliability, and cost.
- Partner with product and platform teams to define data contracts and develop SDKs and platform primitives.
- Apply systems design principles involving partitioning, consistency, stream processing, and storage boundaries.
- Support code reviews, testing rigor, and responsible use of generative AI to improve engineering efficiency and quality.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of software engineering experience building and operating distributed or data systems in production.
- Strong systems design fundamentals, including partitioning, consistency and availability tradeoffs, stream processing, and storage/compute boundaries.
- Proficiency in a backend language such as Go and/or Python.
- Familiarity with Kafka, gRPC, Redis, S3, ClickHouse, or MongoDB.
- Ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear designs and shipped solutions with measurable impact.
- Blockchain or crypto data experience, including familiarity with chain data structures, finality, reorgs, RPC nodes, or wallets, is preferred.
- Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to deliver business-ready results and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
- Potential equity and bonus eligibility in addition to base salary.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.