Remote-First Staff Software Engineer, Payments Platform

Coinbase, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is recruiting a Staff Software Engineer for the Payments team within the Platform organization. You will own the architecture and technical direction of payments infrastructure, ensuring reliability and scalability as Coinbase expands globally.

The role emphasizes leadership, high-stakes delivery, and collaboration with cross-functional partners. Base salary ranges were disclosed for the US market, with potential equity and bonus.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with payments or high-volume systems.
• Architecting fault-tolerant, reliable distributed systems at scale.
• Experience building payment platforms, APIs, and financial infra.

Responsibilities

• Own multi-year technical strategy and architecture for the Payments platform.
• Build and evolve distributed systems handling high-volume payment traffic.
• Establish standards, frameworks, and coding practices across the team.
• Collaborate with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations on technical solutions.
• Lead scaling and reliability initiatives with incident postmortems.

Skills

8+ years exp

Payments systems

Distributed systems

Fault-tolerant design

Cross-team collaboration

AI governance

Job description

Coinbase is recruiting a Staff Software Engineer for the Payments team within the Platform organization. You will own the architecture and technical direction of payments infrastructure, ensuring reliability and scalability as Coinbase expands globally.

The role emphasizes leadership, high-stakes delivery, and collaboration with cross-functional partners. Base salary ranges were disclosed for the US market, with potential equity and bonus.