Join Coinbase as a Senior Software Engineer to build and operate wallet systems and bridging infrastructure for millions of users.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
What you'll build
- Own the design and delivery of backend services that power wallet operations
- Build and improve the distributed systems that manage transaction lifecycle
- Drive reliability and observability improvements for wallet services
- Partner with cross-platform teams to integrate wallet services
- Support engineering quality through rigorous code reviews
Must have
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering
- Proficiency in Go
- Experience building, scaling, and maintaining production backend services
- Familiarity with blockchain technologies
- Experience decomposing monolithic systems into scalable microservices
AI in the day-to-day
Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer will focus on designing and delivering backend services that facilitate wallet operations and cross-chain transactions within Coinbase's blockchain platform. Proficiency in Go and experience with distributed systems are essential, alongside a solid understanding of blockchain technologies like Ethereum and Bitcoin. This position is well-suited for seasoned engineers with a collaborative mindset and a track record of driving projects from concept to production. Coinbase's remote-first approach includes quarterly in-person sessions to foster team collaboration.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze September 26, 2026. Last confirmed on Coinbase's careers page September 26, 2026.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 67% of 108 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list Go we track (median $167,500 across 44 companies). See Go salary trends
- Go appears in 29.5% of 492 comparable senior backend roles in United States; Solana appears in 0.2% of 492 comparable senior backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer- Blockchain Platform (Wallets, Liquidity & Bridging) role remote?
- Yes — Coinbase lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Coinbase lists $186,065–$218,900 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer- Blockchain Platform (Wallets, Liquidity & Bridging) role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Go, Solana.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coinbase targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer- Blockchain Platform (Wallets, Liquidity & Bridging) role at Coinbase.
From the original posting
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
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
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