The opportunity
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
What you'll do
Integrate new blockchains, decentralized exchanges, and launchpads into the: main Coinbase app to unlock more onchain assets for millions of traders
Design and implement first-party smart contracts for onchain trading: primitives such as DEX aggregation and advanced order types to improve execution quality and capability
Scale real-time data pipelines to handle 100K+ messages per second, enabling: millisecond-latency processing of blockchain market data
Optimize the trading stack end-to-end to deliver the fastest execution, most: optimal fills, and most comprehensive asset coverage for DEX traders
Drive iteration on agentic-first development patterns, building: self-improving software systems and tooling that accelerate team velocity
+ years of experience in backend software engineering with demonstrated: success building and operating data systems or data pipelines in production
What they're looking for
- Hands-on experience designing data-intensive systems and integrating with: large-scale data infrastructure such as Kafka, Clickhouse, Starrocks, Temporal, and Redis
- Proven experience designing and integrating with onchain smart contracts on: EVM (Ethereum, Base) or Solana, with deep understanding of the programming models of one or more of these virtual machines
- Demonstrated ability to build, iterate on, and improve agentic-first code: repositories and software systems in production environments
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver: business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
