Engineering Manager (Platform - Wallets Liquidity And Bridging)

Details

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world by building an emerging onchain platform and the future global financial system.

Team Description

This team is responsible for how Coinbase interfaces with high throughput blockchains, serving millions of users. The Wallets umbrella supports 60+ blockchains globally. The liquidity and bridging team manages services orchestrating liquidity movements for Coinbase's custodial products, ensuring sub-second liquidity, security, compliance, and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive long-term vision and strategy for the liquidity and bridging platform aligned with company goals.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to define roadmap priorities and translate business needs into technical execution.
• Lead engineering execution for timely delivery of high-quality, scalable, and secure systems.
• Mentor and foster career growth and technical excellence within the engineering team.
• Promote a collaborative engineering culture emphasizing ownership.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years software engineering experience.
• At least 2 years engineering management experience.
• Strong understanding of high-quality code and effective engineering processes.
• Execution-focused mindset able to navigate ambiguity and deliver results.
• Ability to balance long-term strategy with short-term planning.
• Experience creating and operating multi-tenanted distributed systems at scale.
• Hands-on when necessary: writing/reviewing code, technical documentation, on-call rotations, incident leadership, and bug triage.
• Passionate about building an open financial system via blockchain and crypto technologies.

Nice to Haves

• Alignment with Coinbase values (clear communication, ownership, customer focus).
• High operational excellence.
• Experience with large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems and data pipelines.
• Experience with blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
• Crypto-forward experience including onchain activity such as Ethereum addresses, ENS, and blockchain-based services.

Benefits

• Extended health, dental, vision care.
• Virtual healthcare, life and accident insurance, disability coverage.
• Employee stock purchase plan, wellness stipend.
• Mobile/internet reimbursement, connections stipend.
• Learning and development allowance, employee assistance program.
• Global travel medical policy, fertility benefits.
• Generous time off and leave policy.

Job includes target bonus, target equity, and benefits.

*Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience.