Senior Staff Engineer - Global Payments Platform

Coinbase, Inc.

Oklahoma City (OK)

Hybrid

USD 234,000 - 286,000

Full time

14 days+
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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.

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