Staff Software Engineer- Wallets, Liquidity & Bridging

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Wallets, Liquidity & Bridging team at Coinbase, you own the architecture and technical direction of the wallet systems, liquidity orchestration, and bridging infrastructure that power how Coinbase moves crypto assets across 55+ blockchain protocols for millions of users. You drive the next generation of wallet infrastructure that constructs, signs, broadcasts, and reconciles on-chain transactions with the speed, reliability, and security customers expect.

What you'll do

• 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 in 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.

What you bring

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with deep expertise in Go and designing large-scale, service-oriented distributed systems.
• A demonstrated track record architecting and operating production backend services that handle 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.
• A proven history of decomposing monolithic systems into scalable microservices or platform primitives that multiple teams depend on.
• A track record of influencing technical direction across teams without direct authority, including driving architectural decisions, leading cross-team initiatives, and representing your area in org-level forums.
• The ability to use generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $218,025-$256,500 USD, varying by location.
• Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
• Quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges" for intense collaborative sessions.
• Remote-first work environment.

About Coinbase

Coinbase is building the future of finance with a mission to increase economic freedom. The company operates wallet systems, liquidity orchestration, and bridging infrastructure that power how crypto assets move across 55+ blockchain protocols for millions of users worldwide.