Staff Backend Architect - Global Payments Platform (Remote)

Coinbase, Inc.; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Payments team. You will own multi-year strategy, architect scalable, fault-tolerant systems, and lead cross-functional collaboration to meet regulatory and business needs.

Based in a remote-first environment with periodic in-person surges, you will drive reliability, performance, and scalable growth across global markets, mentoring engineers and shaping platform direction.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with payments/financial infra or high-volume systems.
• Proven ability to architect fault-tolerant, scalable distributed systems.
• Experience delivering platform-wide reusable services, APIs, or multi-tenant architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own multi-year strategy and architecture for Payments platform across global markets.
• Build and evolve distributed systems for high-volume payment traffic with observable SLIs/SLOs.
• Elevate engineering quality through shared frameworks, standards, and paved roads.

Skills

8+ years experience

Payments systems

Distributed systems

Fault tolerance

Scale architecture

Leadership without authority

Generative AI usage

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Payments team. You will own multi-year strategy, architect scalable, fault-tolerant systems, and lead cross-functional collaboration to meet regulatory and business needs.

Based in a remote-first environment with periodic in-person surges, you will drive reliability, performance, and scalable growth across global markets, mentoring engineers and shaping platform direction.