Staff Software Engineer, Wallets, Liquidity & Bridging

Coinbase

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$218,025–$256,500 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Similar $225k
This role $237k
$167k most similar roles pay here $277k

This role pays more than 62% of similar roles. Most pay $194,377–$254,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $237k versus about $225k for comparable roles.

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About Coinbase

Coinbase Global is a publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange platform where consumers can buy, sell, and store digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies. Industry: Cryptocurrency Exchange & Financial Technology

Coinbase currently has 61 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $212,330–$249,800 across 53 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Wallets, Liquidity & Bridging

Staff Software Engineer- Wallets, Liquidity & Bridging joins the Platform organization to oversee wallet systems, liquidity orchestration, and bridging infrastructure across numerous blockchain protocols. This role involves owning the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for these critical systems while building distributed backend services in Go to manage transaction lifecycles and cross-chain movements. The engineer will decompose legacy systems into modular platform services, partner with various internal teams to define integration contracts, and lead reliability efforts for high-throughput Tier-0 systems. Key requirements include extensive experience in Go, designing large-scale service-oriented distributed systems, and hands-on expertise with blockchain technologies like Ethereum, Bitcoin, or Solana. The role focuses on solving the technical challenges of constructing, signing, and reconciling on-chain transactions while ensuring security and reliability across custodial and non-custodial flows for diverse assets.

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What you'll do

  • Define the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for wallet, liquidity, and bridging systems.
  • Build and evolve distributed backend systems in Go to manage transaction lifecycles and cross-chain movements.
  • Decompose legacy systems into modular, reusable platform services to reduce complexity and accelerate integration.
  • Partner with internal teams to define integration contracts and align infrastructure with company-wide standards.
  • Lead reliability and operational excellence for Tier-0 wallet services, including observability and incident response.
  • Shape engineering standards through design reviews, architectural RFCs, and mentoring other engineers.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • Deep expertise in Go and designing large-scale, service-oriented distributed systems.
  • Experience architecting production backend services that handle high-throughput transaction volumes with strict reliability requirements.
  • Hands-on experience with blockchain technologies including transaction construction, signing, broadcasting, key management, or cross-chain bridging.
  • Proven history of decomposing monolithic systems into scalable microservices or platform primitives.
  • Track record of influencing technical direction across teams and leading cross-team initiatives without direct authority.
  • Ability to utilize generative AI responsibly to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency.

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