Software Engineer, Backend - Blockchain Platform (Crypto Data Foundations)

About the position

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system. We’re seeking a Software Engineer to join the Crypto Data Foundation team! Our team has built the fundamental Web3 infrastructure, the data layer, by delivering an open-source, industry-leading suite of data availability solutions, ChainStack, to ensure efficient and scalable access. ChainStack is designed to ingest, index, and parse vast amounts of crypto data with minimal latency, providing a comprehensive solution to a widespread industry challenge.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
• Design and implement foundational infrastructure components used by every engineering team in production (e.g. dynamic configuration, secrets storage, container orchestration, etc)
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
• Learn, build, improve, and maintain cloud provisioning services written in Golang and Terraform
• Design scalable, fault-tolerant solutions to novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices
• Work with engineers and leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
• Provide stellar customer support to our internal engineers on cloud provisioning

Requirements

• At least 2+ years of experience in software engineering
• Experience in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining backend services and infrastructure
• Ability to write high-quality, well-tested code to meet the needs of customers
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to identify problems, determine their root cause, and see them through to solution

Nice-to-haves

• 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

• Target annual salary range: $152,405—$179,300 USD
• Target bonus
• Target equity
• Medical, dental, vision insurance
• 401(k) plan