Coinbase is dedicated to increasing economic freedom in the world through innovative blockchain technology. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate low-latency indexing and streaming services, contributing to the development of their onchain platform.
Responsibilities
• Design, build, and operate low-latency indexing/streaming services on gRPC, Kafka, and our real-time stack
• Own APIs, schemas, SLOs, observability, and on-call for the systems you run
• Lead multi-month initiatives (new chains, re-architecture, migrations/backfills) to improve latency, reliability, and cost
• Partner across teams to define data contracts and ship SDKs/platform primitives that drive adoption
Skills
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• Very strong in distributed systems or data systems. If you are experienced with Crypto, it's a big plus!
• You've experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• You're passionate about building an indexing platform that brings the Web3 and Web2 world together
• Experience designing and developing distributed systems
• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers)
• You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.)
• You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
• You've worked with Golang, Kafka, Redis, S3, Clickhouse, MongoDB
• You've built financial, high reliability or security systems
• Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services
Benefits
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)
Company Overview
• Coinbase is a crypto exchange and wallet platform that allows merchants and consumers to buy, sell, and store digital currencies. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.coinbase.com.
Company H1B Sponsorship
• Coinbase has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 181 in 2025, 92 in 2024, 96 in 2023, 284 in 2022, 183 in 2021, 66 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
