Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coinbase is a cryptocurrency and financial technology company focused on increasing economic freedom. The Senior Software Engineer will build and operate distributed backend systems for wallet operations, liquidity movements, and cross-chain bridging, with an emphasis on reliability, correctness, and multi-chain scalability.
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
- 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
Benefits
- Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility
- Benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k))
- Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company
- Quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges”
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