Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Blockchain Platform (Blockchain Data Processing)

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About The Position

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of? At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system. To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems. Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be. While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported. We’re building an industry-leading, ultra-low-latency indexing platform that ingests and indexes data across major blockchains. It powers teams across Coinbase and external developers via the Coinbase Developer Platform We’re building the real-time backbone that powers diverse use cases. You’ll work across a modern streaming stack (gRPC, Kafka, and more) to design, build, and operate low-latency services at scale. As a small, high-impact team partnering broadly, we take a platform-first approach—delivering platform primitives, SDKs, and tooling that accelerate developer velocity and reduce time-to-market.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in software engineering
Very strong in distributed systems or data systems. If you are experienced with Crypto, it’s a big plus!
You’ve experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
You’re passionate about building an indexing platform that brings the Web3 and Web2 world together

Nice To Haves

Experience designing and developing distributed systems
You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers)
You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.)
You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
You’ve worked with Golang, Kafka, Redis, S3, Clickhouse, MongoDB
You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems
Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate low-latency indexing/streaming services on gRPC, Kafka, and our real-time stack
Own APIs, schemas, SLOs, observability, and on-call for the systems you run
Lead multi-month initiatives (new chains, re-architecture, migrations/backfills) to improve latency, reliability, and cost
Partner across teams to define data contracts and ship SDKs/platform primitives that drive adoption