Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Payments Platform

Coinbase

Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Oakland, CA
Salary
$218,025–$256,500 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
Nearby
99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

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About Coinbase

Coinbase Global is a publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange platform where consumers can buy, sell, and store digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies. Industry: Cryptocurrency Exchange & Financial Technology

Coinbase currently has 60 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Payments Platform

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As a Staff Software Engineer on the Payments team within Coinbase’s Platform organization, you will lead the technical direction of payment infrastructure, ensuring reliability and scalability as the company expands globally. Your responsibilities include defining the multi-year strategy for scaling integrations and funds-flow systems, building high-volume distributed payment processing systems with robust fault isolation and observability features, and establishing coding standards to elevate engineering quality across teams. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to develop technical solutions that meet regulatory requirements while balancing speed and safety. Additionally, you will mentor team members through design reviews and architectural guidance, driving systematic improvements from incident postmortems. Ideal candidates have over eight years of experience in building payment systems or financial infrastructure, a proven track record in delivering fault-tolerant distributed systems at scale, and the ability to influence technical direction across organizations without direct authority.

Skills

Python Docker Kubernetes AWS CI/CD PostgreSQL Redis RabbitMQ GraphQL REST gRPC Prometheus Grafana GitLab Terraform OAuth PCI DSS SLOs Microservices

What you'll do

  • Own the multi-year technical strategy for the Payments platform.
  • Design distributed systems to process high-volume payment traffic globally.
  • Establish coding standards and frameworks to elevate engineering quality.
  • Translate business requirements into technical solutions that balance speed and safety.
  • Lead initiatives to improve system reliability and scalability proactively.
  • Mentor engineers through design reviews and architectural guidance.
  • Drive systemic improvements from incident postmortems.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on payment systems or financial infrastructure.
  • Proven ability to architect and deliver fault-tolerant distributed systems processing billions of dollars in transaction volume.
  • Experience leading the transformation of fragmented services into coherent, reusable platforms through shared frameworks and APIs.
  • Strong track record of owning production reliability and driving systemic improvements from incident postmortems.
  • History of influencing technical direction across teams without direct authority, including participation in org-level forums.

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