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Software Engineer - Crypto Data Foundations

Coinbase· Platform
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Remote$152.4k - $179.3kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Software Engineer role on Coinbase's Blockchain Data Platform team. Build and operate ultra-low-latency distributed systems for real-time blockchain data ingestion, indexing, and query. End-to-end ownership from design to production, driving new chain integrations, migrations, and backfills, and improving latency, reliability, and cost.

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate distributed systems for real-time blockchain data ingestion, indexing, and query, owning services end-to-end from design docs and data modeling through code, rollout, and observability.
  • Own delivery of key initiatives such as new chain integrations, migrations, and backfills, driving improvements to latency, reliability, and cost.
  • Partner with product and platform teams to define data contracts and contribute to SDKs and primitives that drive adoption across Coinbase and external developers.
  • Execute architecture and performance improvements across the indexing stack, applying strong systems design fundamentals around partitioning, consistency, stream processing, and storage boundaries.
  • Support engineering quality across the team through code reviews, testing rigor, and leveraging AI tools to ship faster and reduce operational burden.

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of software engineering experience building and operating distributed or data systems in production.
  • 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, with familiarity across technologies like Kafka, gRPC, Redis, S3, ClickHouse, or MongoDB.
  • Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear designs and shipped solutions with measurable impact.
  • Blockchain or crypto data experience is a plus, including familiarity with chain data structures, finality, reorgs, RPC nodes, or wallets.
  • Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsSystems designBackend programming
Nice to have:Technologies

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision plans with generous employee contributions
  • Health Savings Account with company contributions
  • Disability and life insurance
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Wellness stipend
  • Mobile/internet reimbursement
  • Volunteer time off
  • Fertility counseling and benefits
  • Generous time off/leave policy
  • Option of getting paid in digital currency
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Buy, sell, and manage cryptocurrencies.

Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone. Two principles guide our efforts. First, be the most trusted company in our domain. Second, create user-focused products that are easier and more intuitive to use.

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