4 hours ago
Base Salary
$186k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver Go backend services for wallet operations, liquidity movements, and cross-chain bridging.
- Build distributed systems that manage transaction construction, signing, broadcasting, and on-chain reconciliation across multiple blockchain protocols.
- Improve wallet-service reliability and observability and contribute to incident response, post-mortems, and systemic fixes.
- Partner with Trading, Custody, Staking, and cross-platform teams to integrate wallet services and resolve cross-team dependencies.
- Decompose legacy systems into modular, reusable platform services.
- Support engineering quality through code reviews, design feedback, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Proficiency in Go and hands-on experience designing and operating service-oriented distributed systems.
- Experience building, scaling, and maintaining production backend services with strict correctness and reliability requirements.
- Familiarity with blockchain technologies, including transaction construction, on-chain data indexing, or cross-chain integrations involving Ethereum, Bitcoin, or Solana.
- Experience decomposing monolithic systems into scalable microservices or contributing to platform architecture used by multiple teams.
- Ability to collaborate across teams, communicate technical trade-offs, and drive projects from design through production with autonomy.
- Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Benefits
- Remote-first, but not remote-only, with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
- Potential equity and bonus eligibility in addition to base salary.
About Coinbase
Coinbase builds a cryptocurrency platform for consumers, institutions, and developers to buy, sell, store, and use digital assets. Its products include the Coinbase app/exchange, Coinbase Prime for institutions, custody services, and developer APIs, and it earns primarily from transaction fees and subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and now remote-first, Coinbase is a public company (NASDAQ: COIN) serving major crypto markets in the U.S. and abroad.