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Salary: USD 218,025 - 256,500 / annual
Coinbase is hiring a Staff 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.
In this role, you will own the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for Coinbase's wallet, liquidity, and bridging systems, defining how these platforms evolve to support new chains, assets, and product use cases at scale. You'll build and evolve distributed backend systems (primarily in Go) that orchestrate liquidity movements, cross-chain bridging, and transaction lifecycle management across custodial and non-custodial flows.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning the technical strategy and architecture for wallet, liquidity, and bridging systems
- Building and evolving Go-based distributed backend systems for liquidity orchestration and cross-chain bridging
- Driving service-oriented architecture improvements by decomposing legacy systems into modular, reusable platform services
- Partnering with Trading, Custody, Staking, and cross-platform engineering teams to define integration contracts and resolve dependencies
- Leading reliability and operational excellence for wallet services, owning observability, incident response, and systemic improvements for Tier-0 systems
- Shaping engineering standards and technical culture through design reviews, architectural RFCs, and mentoring
Coinbase is a remote-first company with quarterly in-person "surge" working sessions. The environment is intense and mission-driven, focused on increasing economic freedom through cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in Go and designing large-scale, service-oriented distributed systems
- Demonstrated track record architecting and operating production backend services handling high-throughput transaction volumes with strict correctness and reliability requirements
- Hands-on experience with blockchain technologies, including transaction construction, signing, broadcasting, key management, or cross-chain bridging across protocols like Ethereum, Bitcoin, or Solana
- Proven history of decomposing monolithic systems into scalable microservices or platform primitives that multiple teams depend on
- Track record of influencing technical direction across teams without direct authority, including driving architectural decisions and leading cross-team initiatives
- Ability to utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs
