Senior Blockchain Engineer

5 days ago


New York, New York, United States Coinbase Full time
About Coinbase

Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider, dedicated to increasing economic freedom around the world.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our Blockchain Developer Product Group. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems in production.

Key Responsibilities
  • Work to support new and existing blockchain networks on our platform, including containerizing, YAML templating, and writing code that facilitates different networks running on our Kubernetes-based platform.
  • Onboard protocols with complex topology onto our platform with full nodes & archival support and perming all necessary machine fitting.
  • Build reporting features for protocols that allow the end user to query aggregate validator activity for any time period.
  • Research complex topics around specific blockchain networks, including consensus algorithms, economic models, and node/network topologies.
  • Contribute to blockchain network and node production support discussions.
  • Participate in the overall blockchain network community, joining third-party discussions and contributing to the development of new and existing networks.
  • Contribute to our CI/CD pipelines, integration, and performance testing that help to automate the deployment of blockchain network infrastructure.
  • Incorporate monitoring, alerting, and observability to support our customers' blockchain networks in production, maintaining the highest standards of health, reliability, and uptime.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and facilitate incident response, triaging, and mitigation steps when necessary.
  • Develop systems to prevent regressions for major features or systems.
  • Ensure that the team's protocols are performing at or above the network average and initiate proactive machine fitting to identify and improve performance bottlenecks.
  • Support our Customer Success (CX) and Customer Advocacy (CA) teams to improve the experience of customers interacting with our blockchain networks via knowledge sharing, documentation improvements, etc.
Requirements
  • 3-5+ years of infrastructure or back-end engineering experience.
  • Strong technical design ability, informed by broad experience across multiple domains/specialties.
  • Leadership experience in building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems in production.
  • Self-motivated and with a proven track record of shipping quality products.
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to use qualitative and quantitative data to inform decision making.
  • Strong desire to build something meaningful in a groundbreaking, entrepreneurial environment.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Nice to Haves
  • Familiarity with primary tech stacks we work with: Go, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Terraform, and AWS/GCP.
Pay Transparency Notice

Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range from $180,625 to $212,000 USD. Full-time offers from Coinbase include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)).

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

Coinbase is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable law.



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