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Salary: USD 186,065 - 218,900 / annual
Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Wallets, Liquidity & Bridging team within the Platform organization. This team builds and operates the wallet systems, liquidity orchestration, and bridging infrastructure that power how Coinbase moves crypto assets across 55+ blockchain protocols for millions of users.
You will design and build distributed backend systems that construct, sign, broadcast, and reconcile on-chain transactions, helping drive the next generation of wallet infrastructure with a focus on reliability, correctness, and multi-chain scalability.
Key responsibilities:
- Own the design and delivery of backend services (Go) that power wallet operations, liquidity movements, and cross-chain bridging across custodial and non-custodial flows.
- Build and improve distributed systems that manage transaction lifecycle, signing, broadcasting, and on-chain reconciliation across multiple blockchain protocols including Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana.
- Drive reliability and observability improvements for wallet services, contributing to incident response, post-mortems, and systemic fixes that strengthen Tier-0 system availability.
- Partner with Trading, Custody, Staking, and cross-platform teams to integrate wallet services with downstream products, defining clear contracts and resolving cross-team dependencies.
- Execute service decomposition and architecture improvements that break down legacy systems into modular, reusable platform services other teams can build on.
- Support engineering quality across the team through rigorous code reviews, design feedback, and sharing knowledge on architectural patterns and coding standards.
Coinbase is a remote-first company with quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges."
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with proficiency in Go and hands-on experience designing and operating service-oriented distributed systems.
- Demonstrated experience building, scaling, and maintaining production backend services with strict correctness and reliability requirements.
- Familiarity with blockchain technologies such as transaction construction, on-chain data indexing, or cross-chain integrations across protocols like Ethereum, Bitcoin, or Solana.
- Experience decomposing monolithic systems into scalable microservices or contributing to platform architecture that multiple teams depend on.
- Proven ability to collaborate across teams, communicate technical trade-offs clearly, and drive projects from design through production with autonomy.
- Ability to utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
