Senior Fullstack Engineer; Backend Leaning

Base is planning to bring a million developers and a billion users onchain. We need your help to make that happen.

We believe that the onchain platform is the most important builder platform since the internet. We believe that the onchain platform should be open source, free to use, and globally available. And we believe that in order to make it really work, we need all hands on deck, working together to scale in a secure, decentralized, easy-to-use way.

At Base, we live by our values: we do the right thing, work hard, stay optimistic, prioritize the team, and push creative boundaries—all while building the future of onchain. We value a strong work ethic, where our team rises to the challenge, embraces hard weeks, and makes small to significant personal tradeoffs when necessary to drive impact and innovation.

Base is incubated within Coinbase and plans to progressively decentralize in the years ahead. We believe that decentralization is critical to creating an open, global crypto economy that is accessible to everyone.

Base is built on Optimism’s open-source OP Stack. We’re joining as the second Core Dev team working on the OP Stack to ensure it’s a public good available to everyone; and contributing a portion of sequencer revenue to funding public goods.

We are looking for a strong Senior Fullstack Engineer (Backend leaning) to join the Base team with emphasis in backend onchain engineering, to enable and accelerate the success of Base.

What you'll be doing:

• Building and maintaining backend Golang systems that power Base

• Working with Kubernetes and Cloud services to automate and maintain critical blockchain infrastructure

• Engaging in research and prototyping of groundbreaking ideas to improve efficiency and scalability of blockchain clients

What we look for in you:

• You have at least 5 years of experience in software engineering or systems engineering

• You've developed and shipped features of core backend systems at massive scale

• You’re familiar with current trends and best practices in infrastructure and systems design

• You write high quality, well tested and maintainable code

Nice to haves:

• You’re comfortable with Golang, Geth, Foundry, Solidity, or other crypto tools

• You have contributed to open source crypto projects, for example OP Stack contributions or Base contributions

• You’ve familiar with Kubernetes or cloud providers such as AWS or GCP

Coinbase is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law.