Staff Backend Software Engineer (Payments Platform)

Coinbase, Inc.; United States; Presencial; USD 180.000 - 260.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Coinbase, Inc. is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join 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 into new regions and payment methods. You will drive a multi-year technical strategy for scaling integrations, routing, and funds-flow systems across global markets, building fault-tolerant distributed systems and elevating engineering quality

Formación

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with hands-on building payment systems or high-volume platforms.
• Experience architecting fault-tolerant distributed systems at scale.
• Proven track record owning production reliability and incident response.
• Ability to partner with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.

Responsabilidades

• Own the architecture and technical direction of the Payments systems.
• Define multi-year strategy and roadmap for scaling integrations, routing, and funds-flow across global markets.
• Build and evolve distributed systems that process high-volume payment traffic with observability and reliability.
• Lead and mentor engineers, participate in design reviews and architectural guidance.

Conocimientos

Software engineering

Payment systems

Distributed systems

High-volume platforms

Architectural design

Mentorship

Descripción del empleo

• We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the Payments team within the Platform organization
• The Payments team builds and operates the infrastructure, workflows, and APIs that power fiat on- and off-ramps for individual and institutional customers, processing billions of dollars in transaction volume across a growing set of global markets
• You’ll own the architecture and technical direction of these systems, ensuring every payment is reliable, scalable, and correct as Coinbase expands into new regions and payment methods
• Own the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for the Payments platform, defining the roadmap for scaling integrations, routing, and funds-flow systems across global markets
• Build and evolve distributed systems that process high-volume payment traffic, designing for fault isolation, graceful degradation, observability, and clear SLOs for Tier-0/Tier-1 services
• Drive engineering quality by establishing paved roads, shared frameworks, and coding standards that elevate the technical bar across the Payments team and adjacent orgs
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to translate ambiguous business requirements into well-scoped technical solutions that balance speed, safety, and regulatory needs
• Lead high-stakes scaling and reliability initiatives, anticipating bottlenecks before they occur and driving systematic improvements from incident postmortems
• Strengthen team capabilities through hands-on mentorship, design reviews, and architectural guidance that accelerate the growth of engineers across the team

History of influencing technical direction across teams and organizations without direct authority, including representing your area in org-level architecture and strategy forums8+ years of experience in software engineering, including hands-on experience building payment systems, financial infrastructure, or high-volume transactional platformsUtilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and qualityDemonstrated track record of architecting and delivering fault-tolerant, highly reliable distributed systems at scale, with experience processing billions of dollars in transaction volumeLed platform-building efforts that transformed fragmented services into coherent, reusable systems (e.g., shared frameworks, unified APIs, multi-tenant architectures)Proven experience owning production reliability, leading high-severity incident response, and driving systemic improvements across multiple teams or domains