Remote - USA Hybrid Full-time USD 253,895 – 298,700 / year

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer - Blockchain Platform

Responsibilities

  • Shape and execute the long-term technical vision for a blockchain infrastructure platform, covering nodes, wallets, data indexing, and asset management, to enable new blockchain integrations, product expansion, and scalability under rising transaction demand.
  • Design and enhance foundational systems such as node networks, indexers, wallet services, and liquidity components to ensure global-scale performance, resilience, security, and cost-effectiveness.
  • Lead comprehensive architectural transformations across multiple teams, translating complex, ambiguous challenges into structured plans with defined milestones and measurable results.
  • Establish and enforce engineering best practices across transaction integrity, cryptographic key handling, system recovery, and monitoring to ensure correctness and operational reliability.
  • Use telemetry and observability data—such as transaction success rates, node uptime, indexing delays, and incident load—to detect systemic weaknesses and lead targeted improvements.
  • Serve as a strategic representative for the platform in cross-organizational and leadership discussions, articulating technical decisions and securing alignment on high-impact initiatives in areas like yield generation and stablecoin infrastructure.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Other

Participate in quarterly in-person intensive collaboration periods known as 'surges'.

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Coinbase
Coinbase is a leading global cryptocurrency exchange platform that allows users to buy, sell, and manage digital assets securely online.
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Job Details
Department Platform
Category DevOps & SRE
Posted 21 days ago