Software Engineer - Crypto Data Foundations

As a Software Engineer on the Blockchain Data Platform team at Coinbase, you'll build and operate an ultra-low-latency indexing platform that ingests, normalizes, and serves data across major blockchains. You join a small, high-impact, AI-native team taking a platform-first approach, shipping the primitives, SDKs, and tooling that power teams across Coinbase and external developers via the Coinbase Developer Platform.

What you'll do

• 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.

What you bring

• 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.
• The ability to utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Nice to have

• Blockchain or crypto data experience, including familiarity with chain data structures, finality, reorgs, RPC nodes, or wallets.

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $152,405-$179,300 USD (varies by location).
• Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility.
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
• Remote-first work with quarterly in-person "surge" sessions.

About Coinbase

Coinbase is building economic freedom by making crypto accessible and useful. The Blockchain Data Platform team within the Platform organization powers indexing and data infrastructure that serves teams across Coinbase and external developers.