Remote-First Staff Software Engineer: Wallet & Cross-Chain

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United States

Remote

USD 218,000 - 257,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Wallets, Liquidity & Bridging team. You will own architecture and technical direction for wallet infrastructure that moves crypto across 55+ protocols for millions of users, ensuring speed, reliability, and security.

You will build distributed Go backends to orchestrate liquidity movements, cross-chain bridging, and transaction lifecycle management, while decomposing monoliths, collaborating across teams, and leading reliability and

Qualifications

8+ years of experience in software engineering with Go and large-scale distributed systems.
Proven track record architecting and operating production backend services with high throughput and reliability.
Hands-on experience with blockchain technologies, including transaction construction, signing, broadcasting, key management, or cross-chain bridging.
Ability to decompose monolithic systems into scalable microservices used by multiple teams.
Ability to influence technical direction across teams and lead cross-team initiatives.
Responsible use of generative AI to improve workflow efficiency and quality.

Responsibilities

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.
Build and evolve the distributed backend systems (Go) that orchestrate liquidity movements, cross-chain bridging, and transaction lifecycle management across custodial and non-custodial flows.
Drive service-oriented architecture improvements by decomposing legacy systems into modular, reusable platform services that reduce complexity and accelerate integration for downstream product teams.
Partner with Trading, Custody, Staking, and cross-platform engineering teams to define integration contracts, resolve cross-team dependencies, and align wallet infrastructure with company-wide architectural standards.
Lead reliability and operational excellence for wallet services, owning observability, incident response, and systemic improvements that prevent recurring failures across Tier-0 systems.
Shape engineering standards and technical culture across the team and broader Blockchain Platform organization through design reviews, architectural RFCs, and mentoring engineers on best practices.