Senior Software Engineer- Blockchain Platform (Wallets, Liquidity & Bridging)

Coinbase

6d•$186,065 - $218,900•Hybrid

About The Position

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Wallets, Liquidity & Bridging team within the Platform organization. This team is responsible for building and operating the wallet systems, liquidity orchestration, and bridging infrastructure that enable Coinbase to move crypto assets across over 55 blockchain protocols for millions of users. The role involves designing and building distributed backend systems for constructing, signing, broadcasting, and reconciling on-chain transactions, with a focus on driving the next generation of wallet infrastructure with an emphasis on reliability, correctness, and multi-chain scalability. Coinbase is a remote-first company that also conducts in-person working sessions quarterly.

Requirements

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.

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 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.