Senior Staff Engineer - Global Payments Platform

Coinbase, Inc.; Oklahoma City (OK); Hybrid; USD 234,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Platform Payments team. You will define the engineering vision for fiat movement across 50+ countries, building the rails, routing, and funds-flow services powering customer payments.

You will own multi-quarter technical strategy, drive high-availability and low-latency systems, and mentor senior engineers to raise design quality and reliability across payments pods.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Deep money-movement architecture experience including PSPs, ISO 20022, routing and high-volume payments.
• Proven track record designing highly available, high-performance systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for Payments spanning rails, orchestration, and transfers.
• Architect and evolve the core Payments platform for high availability, low latency, and cost efficiency at global scale.
• Lead end-to-end design and rollout of large, cross-team initiatives with clear milestones and measurable outcomes.
• Set and enforce technical standards for financial correctness across Payments, including idempotency and auditability.
• Partner with FinHub, Payments Risk, Regulatory Platform, and Product to balance customer experience, risk controls, and unit economics.
• Provide deep technical mentorship to senior engineers across Payments pods.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go/Java/Python

Cloud-native

Money movement

Technical leadership

Executive communication

AI in workflows

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Platform Payments team. You will define the engineering vision for fiat movement across 50+ countries, building the rails, routing, and funds-flow services powering customer payments.

You will own multi-quarter technical strategy, drive high-availability and low-latency systems, and mentor senior engineers to raise design quality and reliability across payments pods.