Software Engineer, Backend - Blockchain Platform (Staking Validators)

The Staking Validators team is responsible for operating all staking-related nodes at Coinbase.

• We operate the largest validators fleet in the world: The team’s mandate is to onboard, operate, and optimize proof-of-stake network infrastructure at Coinbase.
• We build infrastructure to provide the most secure and highest uptime: Observability and monitoring is a cornerstone of the team’s philosophy in order to ensure top-tier uptime and performance.
• We constantly innovate to bring the best yield for our customers: We are always on the lookout for creative ways to optimize our operations as we continue to scale.
• We empower best in class staking experience for internal coinbase teams & external customers.

Unique opportunities on this team:

• Amazing autonomy - operate as a “Protocol CTO”: We split our responsibility by protocol; for the protocol you’re owning we look up to you to operate as a “Protocol CTO”. This means deeply engaging with community members and partners, and constantly innovating to make this protocol a success within Coinbase.
• Crypto forward: We’re at the forefront of crypto innovation at Coinbase, engaging deeply with the community and operating at the bleeding edge of crypto innovation.
• High impact: As one of the largest validator operators in the world, you’ll have a wide impact on Coinbase as well as the wider crypto industry.
• Technically challenging: Unique engineering challenges of operating highly performant blockchain nodes at scale. 

Public blogposts:

• Operating staking nodes on Kubernetes 
• Reimagining Ethereum staking node architecture to improve performance and reliability

What you'll be doing:

• Build new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang.
• Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
• Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.

What we look for in you:

• You have at least 2+ years of experience in software engineering.
• You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
• You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
• You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.

Nice to haves:

• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size).
• You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.).
• You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices.
• You’ve worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or Redshift.
• Experience and/or interest in blockchain nodes.
• You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems.
• You have Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.
• Linux OS System Expertise – Strong grasp of the full Linux compute stack, with the ability to diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks (CPU, memory, storage, networking, etc.).
• Bare Metal Performance Engineering – Optimize and maintain high-performance bare metal infrastructure by tuning hardware, kernel, and network configurations for low-latency, high-throughput workloads.
• Multi-Cloud + Multi-Region – Exposure to systems that have a multi-cloud and multi-region deployment architecture.

Job #: P71567

*Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience.

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For select roles, Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. Your interview responses, in the form of a voice recording and/or transcript will be assessed in terms of the job qualifications and characteristics listed in the position description above by a human recruiter.  

For other select roles, Coinbase is piloting BrightHire, an AI interview intelligence platform, to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate. 

Depending on your role and stage in the application process, you will be informed of more specifics regarding which tool(s) will be used as part of the interview process.  

These interview tools enable us to give a greater number of candidates an initial interview who meet our mandatory hiring criteria. The above pilots are for testing purposes and Coinbase will not use AI to make an employment decision. To request a reasonable accommodation due to disability, please contact accommodations@coinbase.com.