Senior Software Engineer, Blockchain - Developer

The mission of the Developer Product Group is to make it incredibly easy to build onchain. Our suite of products includes: Base, WaaS, and Cloud. Our most recent offering, Base, is an Ethereum L2 built to scale the crypto economy, the foundation for continuing the onchain journey. Wallet-as-a-Service (WaaS) is an API-based crypto platform that will enable developers to interact with heterogeneous cryptocurrency networks (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Cardano) in a simple, secure and scalable way. Coinbase Cloud provides web3 APIs, services, and infrastructure to power the next generation of software builders.

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Blockchain Engineer to join our highly-skilled and passionate team. The ideal candidate is an experienced, motivated, self-starting engineer with a love for building containerized applications in a cloud native development environment. We have a highly focused and collaborative team. Our team prioritizes creating a shared understanding of our systems and supported networks, and we are dedicated to supporting each other on a daily basis.

What you'll be doing:

• Work to support new and existing blockchain networks on our platform. This means containerizing, YAML templating, and otherwise writing code that facilitates different networks running on our Kubernetes based platform every day
• Onboard protocols with complex topology onto our platform with full nodes & archival support and perming all necessary machine fitting
• Build reporting features for protocols that allow the end user to query aggregate validator activity for any time period
• Research complex topics around specific blockchain networks including consensus algorithms, economic models, and node/network topologies.
• Contribute to blockchain network and node production support discussions. We are looking for a strong technical leader that can help drive and own support for multiple networks.
• Participate in the overall blockchain network community. Join third party discussions and become a contributor to the development of new and existing networks.
• Contribute to our CI/CD pipelines, integration and performance testing that help to automate the deployment of blockchain network infrastructure
• Incorporate monitoring, alerting, and observability to support our customers blockchain networks in production that allow us to maintain the highest standards of health, reliability and uptime.
• Participate in on call rotations and when necessary facilitate incident response, triaging and mitigation steps
• Develop systems to prevent regressions for a major feature or system (e.g. GBS sync stalling or falling behind to the point where they’d impact recovery time)
• Make sure that the team's protocols are performing at or above the network average and initiative proactive machine fitting to identify and improve performance bottlenecks
• Support our Customer Success (CX) and Customer Advocacy (CA) teams to improve the experience of customers interacting with our blockchain networks via knowledge sharing, documentation improvements, etc.

What we look for in you:

• 3-5+ years of infrastructure or back-end engineering experience
• Strong technical design ability, informed by broad experience across multiple domains/specialties
• Leadership experience in building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems in production
• Self-motivated and with a proven track record of shipping quality products
• Analytical mindset with the ability to use qualitative and quantitative data to inform decision making
• Strong desire to build something meaningful in a groundbreaking, entrepreneurial environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to haves:

• While a degree in CS is nice, you don't need one--or any other kind of degree--to work here. Some of the best people come from non-traditional backgrounds and disciplines, and we’re dedicated to supporting our employees’ education and growth.
• Familiarity with any of the primary tech stacks we work with: Go, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Terraform and AWS/GCP.

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Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range from $175,100 to $206,000 + target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).