Remote Senior Go Engineer — Blockchain Wallets & Cross-Chain

Coinbase, Inc.; Springfield (IL); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Wallets, Liquidity & Bridging team within the Platform organization. You will design and build distributed backend services that power wallet operations, liquidity movements, and cross-chain bridging across custodial and non-custodial flows.

You will collaborate across Trading, Custody, Staking, and cross-platform teams to define contracts, decompose legacy systems, and drive reliability with strong coding standards and observability.

Qualifications

• 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.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Blockchain familiarity

Microservices

Cross-team collaboration

Code reviews

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Wallets, Liquidity & Bridging team within the Platform organization. You will design and build distributed backend services that power wallet operations, liquidity movements, and cross-chain bridging across custodial and non-custodial flows.

You will collaborate across Trading, Custody, Staking, and cross-platform teams to define contracts, decompose legacy systems, and drive reliability with strong coding standards and observability.