Remote-First Staff Backend Engineer, Payments Platform

Coinbase, Inc.; Cheyenne (WY); Remote; USD 218.000 - 257.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Payments team within the Platform organization.

You will own the architecture and technical direction of payments infrastructure powering fiat on- and off-ramps for individual and institutional customers, processing billions in transaction volume across global markets. You'll lead high-impact scalability and reliability initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to deliver safe,

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including payments or high-volume systems.
• Experience architecting fault-tolerant, scalable distributed systems at scale.
• Experience leading platform-building efforts and multi-tenant architectures.
• Proven reliability ownership and incident response across teams.
• Influence on technical direction without direct authority; cross-functional collaboration.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.

Aufgaben

• Own multi-year strategy and architecture for Payments platform across global markets.
• Build and evolve distributed systems handling high-volume payment traffic with observability and SLOs.
• Establish shared frameworks and standards to raise engineering quality.
• Partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Lead scalability and reliability initiatives and drive improvements from postmortems.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews and architectural guidance.

Kenntnisse

Payment systems experience

Distributed systems

Leadership without authority

AI in workflows

Jobbeschreibung

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Payments team within the Platform organization.

You will own the architecture and technical direction of payments infrastructure powering fiat on- and off-ramps for individual and institutional customers, processing billions in transaction volume across global markets. You'll lead high-impact scalability and reliability initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to deliver safe,