Senior Staff Software Engineer - Blockchain Platform

Coinbase

9h•$253,895 - $298,700•Hybrid

About The Position

Coinbase is seeking a highly technical, crypto-passionate leader to define the engineering vision and build the next generation of industry-leading crypto infrastructure for the Blockchain Platform team. This team operates foundational infrastructure that connects Coinbase's products to the broader crypto economy, building systems that power millions of transactions with speed, cost-efficiency, and industry-leading security. The platform supports 60+ blockchain networks and 300+ tokens across various Coinbase products. The team is currently focused on rearchitecting its wallet stack, indexing infrastructure, and internal asset identifier systems for increased scale, extensibility, and performance, while also advancing new initiatives in Yield and Stablecoins. Coinbase is a remote-first company that conducts quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”

Requirements

Experience with high-throughput transaction systems requiring strong auditability, idempotency, and financial precision.
Familiarity with staking infrastructure, bridging protocols, or tokenization systems.
Experience applying AI or agent-based automation to reduce operational toil in platform or infrastructure contexts.
Background at a high-scale technology company with a track record of platform-level impact across multiple teams.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with one or more blockchain protocols at the node or protocol level (e.g., EVM chains, Solana, Bitcoin, L2s).

Responsibilities

Define and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for Blockchain Platform, spanning nodes, wallets, indexing, and asset lifecycle, to support new chains, new products, and significant growth in onchain transaction volume.
Architect and evolve the core Blockchain Platform infrastructure - nodes, indexers, wallet systems, and liquidity primitives - for high availability, low latency, cost efficiency, and security at global scale.
Lead end-to-end design and rollout of large, cross-team architectural initiatives (e.g., wallet stack rearchitecture, indexing stack redesign, asset identifier system), breaking high ambiguity into clear milestones and measurable outcomes.
Set and enforce technical standards for correctness, security, and reliability across all crypto asset operations, including transaction finality, key management, reconciliation, and failure-mode handling for all onchain flows.
Drive engineering efficiency across the org - defining standards for testing, quality, automation, and observability, and championing AI-native approaches that reduce operational burden and enable agents to serve as front-line operators.
Use data and observability signals (e.g., transaction success rates, node reliability, indexing latency, on-call burden) to identify structural platform gaps and lead systematic reliability and efficiency improvements.
Represent Blockchain Platform in executive and cross-org forums, clearly communicating tradeoffs, aligning stakeholders on strategy, and securing buy-in for high-impact technical bets including emerging areas like Yield and Stablecoins.