The role
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We're 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'll design and build the 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.
What you'll do:
- 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 the 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.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, 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.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Job #: P78321
Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):
$186,065—$218,900 USD
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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