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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $152,405.0 - $179,300.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Profiling, Distributed Systems, Regression Testing, Blockchain, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Datadog, Grafana
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-engineer-blockchain-platform-nodes-coinbase-9563443

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

* 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.


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