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- Salary
- Not Disclosed
- Location
- Remote - United States Remote - United States
- Work arrangement
- Remote
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience in software engineering with exposure to systems-level performance analysis, profiling, or optimization of production infrastructure. Experience operating distributed systems, including diagnosing resource bottlenecks, tuning service performance, or managing capacity. Proficiency in backend programming (Go preferred) and familiarity with systems tooling for profiling, tracing, and observability (e.g., pprof, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana). Demonstrated ability to improve infrastructure efficiency through engineering optimization rather than simply scaling resources. Exposure to blockchain nodes, consensus protocols, or crypto infrastructure is a plus; curiosity about how different protocols behave under load and during upgrades.
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Role Summary
The Software Engineer joins the CB Node team to improve the performance and reliability of blockchain nodes across Coinbase’s platform. The role focuses on diagnosing infrastructure resource use, improving cost efficiency, and supporting reliable node operations.
What You'll Do
- Analyze and optimize node-stack performance by diagnosing resource consumption and implementing system-level fixes.
- Build observability, health-check, and automated failover capabilities for blockchain nodes.
- Profile workloads, right-size node fleet instances, and contribute to capacity models.
- Partner with protocol integration, wallet, and indexer teams on platform performance improvements.
- Support definition and implementation of node-service SLOs and SLIs.
- Support protocol upgrades and node operations by validating resource efficiency and regression-testing before production rollout.
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2+ years of software engineering experience with exposure to systems-level performance analysis, profiling, or production-infrastructure optimization. Experience operating distributed systems; backend programming proficiency; familiarity with profiling, tracing, and observability tools; demonstrated ability to improve infrastructure efficiency through engineering; and responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.
Required
- Go programming experience
- Exposure to blockchain nodes, consensus protocols, or crypto infrastructure; curiosity about protocol behavior under load and during...
Original job description
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Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
We're hiring a Software Engineer to join the CB Node team within the Platform organization. This team runs all the blockchain nodes that power every asset Coinbase offers to customers, currently spanning 55 unique protocols across Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, and beyond. You'll contribute to performance optimization and reliability across the blockchain platform stack, diagnosing root causes instead of over-provisioning, reducing infrastructure spend, and building the observability and health-check systems that keep our nodes reliable at scale.
What you'll do:
- Own performance analysis and optimization tasks across the blockchain node stack, diagnosing root causes of resource consumption and implementing system-level fixes that reduce infrastructure spend while maintaining reliability SLOs.
- Build observability, health-check, and automated failover capabilities for blockchain nodes, ensuring the team can detect degradation and respond proactively rather than reactively scaling resources.
- Execute right-sizing improvements across the node fleet, profiling workloads, identifying over-provisioned instances, and contributing to capacity models that balance cost efficiency with reliability.
- Partner with protocol integration engineers, wallet teams, and indexer teams to extend performance improvements across the blockchain platform stack.
- Support the definition and implementation of SLOs and SLIs for node services, helping create measurement frameworks that give the team confidence in reliability without relying on over-provisioning.
- Support protocol upgrades and node operations with a performance-first lens, validating new blockchain versions for resource efficiency and regression-testing before production rollout.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 2+ years of experience in software engineering with exposure to systems-level performance analysis, profiling, or optimization of production infrastructure.
- Experience operating distributed systems, including diagnosing resource bottlenecks, tuning service performance, or managing capacity.
- Proficiency in backend programming (Go preferred) and familiarity with systems tooling for profiling, tracing, and observability (e.g., pprof, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Demonstrated ability to improve infrastructure efficiency through engineering optimization rather than simply scaling resources.
- Exposure to blockchain nodes, consensus protocols, or crypto infrastructure is a plus; curiosity about how different protocols behave under load and during upgrades.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Job #: P77414
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About the company
Coinbase
Large Enterprise
Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform that enables users to buy, sell, and manage digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and has grown to serve millions of users globally, providing a secure and user-friendly experience for both novice and experienced traders. Coinbase aims to create an open financial system for the world, advocating for the adoption of digital currencies while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards in various markets. Through its innovative products and services, Coinbase seeks to empower individuals and institutions to transact in cryptocurrencies with confidence.