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
Define and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for Blockchain: Platform, spanning nodes, wallets, indexing, and asset lifecycle, to support new chain integrations, new products, and significant growth in onchain transaction volume.
Architect and evolve core platform infrastructure, including nodes, indexers,: wallet systems, and liquidity primitives, for high availability, low latency, cost efficiency, and security at global scale.
Lead end-to-end design and rollout of large, cross-team architectural: initiatives (e.g., wallet stack rearchitecture, indexing stack redesign, asset identifier system), breaking high ambiguity into clear milestones and measurable outcomes.
Drive engineering standards for correctness, security, reliability, testing,: and observability across all crypto asset operations, including transaction finality, key management, reconciliation, and failure-mode handling.
Own data-driven reliability improvements by using observability signals: (transaction success rates, node reliability, indexing latency, on-call burden) to identify structural platform gaps and lead systematic remediation.
Represent Blockchain Platform in executive and cross-org forums,: communicating tradeoffs, aligning stakeholders on strategy, and securing buy-in for high-impact technical bets in areas like Yield and Stablecoins.
What they're looking for
- + years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years operating at a: staff-plus level designing and scaling high-throughput transaction systems requiring strong auditability, idempotency, and financial precision.
- Hands-on experience with one or more blockchain protocols at the node or: protocol level (e.g., EVM chains, Solana, Bitcoin, L2s), with demonstrated depth in staking infrastructure, bridging protocols, or tokenization systems.
- Proven track record of leading large-scale, multi-team architectural: initiatives from design through production at a company operating critical infrastructure at global scale.
- Experience applying AI or agent-based automation to reduce operational toil: in platform or infrastructure contexts, with measurable results in efficiency or reliability gains.
