# Senior Staff Software Engineer - Blockchain Platform

**Company:** [Coinbase](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/coinbase)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $254k – $299k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Blockchain, Node Infrastructure, Wallet Systems, Indexing, High-Throughput Transaction Systems, Staking, Bridging Protocols, Tokenization, AI Automation, Observability
**Posted:** 2026-06-17

> Senior technical leader defining multi-quarter strategy and architecture for Coinbase's Blockchain Platform across nodes, wallets, indexing, and asset lifecycle at global scale.

## Job Description

## What you’ll be doing

- Define and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for Blockchain Platform, spanning nodes, wallets, indexing, and asset lifecycle, to support new chains, new products, and significant growth in onchain transaction volume.
- Architect and evolve the core Blockchain Platform infrastructure - 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.
- Set and enforce technical standards for correctness, security, and reliability across all crypto asset operations, including transaction finality, key management, reconciliation, and failure-mode handling for all onchain flows.
- Drive engineering efficiency across the org - defining standards for testing, quality, automation, and observability, and championing AI-native approaches that reduce operational burden and enable agents to serve as front-line operators.
- Use data and observability signals (e.g., transaction success rates, node reliability, indexing latency, on-call burden) to identify structural platform gaps and lead systematic reliability and efficiency improvements.
- Represent Blockchain Platform in executive and cross-org forums, clearly communicating tradeoffs, aligning stakeholders on strategy, and securing buy-in for high-impact technical bets including emerging areas like Yield and Stablecoins.

## What we look for in you

- Experience with high-throughput transaction systems requiring strong auditability, idempotency, and financial precision.
- Familiarity with staking infrastructure, bridging protocols, or tokenization systems.
- Experience applying AI or agent-based automation to reduce operational toil in platform or infrastructure contexts.
- Background at a high-scale technology company with a track record of platform-level impact across multiple teams.

## Nice to haves

- Hands-on experience with one or more blockchain protocols at the node or protocol level (e.g., EVM chains, Solana, Bitcoin, L2s).

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