Role at a glance
- Salary
- $253.9K – $298.7K/yr
- Location
- Remote - US Remote - US - Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only)
- Work arrangement
- Remote
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production
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Role Summary
The Senior Staff Software Engineer joins Coinbase’s Platform Payments team to define the engineering vision for fiat movement into and out of Coinbase across 50+ countries and payment rails. The role owns multi-quarter technical strategy and platform architecture for fiat on- and off-ramps, routing, orchestration, and funds-flow services, with impact on payment success rates, latency, and cost efficiency.
What You'll Do
- Define and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for Payments across 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 such as new global rails, decomp/migrations, and resiliency programs
- Set and enforce technical standards for financial correctness, including idempotency, reconciliation, failure-mode handling, and...
- Partner with FinHub, Payments Risk, Regulatory Platform, and Product on cohesive architectures
- Provide deep technical mentorship to senior and staff engineers across Payments pods
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10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems; deep backend programming and cloud-native architecture expertise; money-movement architecture experience including PSPs, ISO 20022, routing, double-entry ledgering, and high-volume payment systems; experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives and mentoring senior engineers; ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs to executive and cross-org stakeholders; responsible use of generative AI with human oversight
Required
- 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production
- Deep expertise in backend programming (e.g., Go, Java, Python) and cloud-native architecture
- Deep money-movement architecture experience including PSPs, ISO 20022, routing, double-entry ledgering, and high-volume payment systems
- Experience designing highly available, high-performance systems and addressing scaling bottlenecks proactively
- Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams
- Experience mentoring senior engineers in system design and long-term maintainability
- Ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly to executive and cross-org stakeholders
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight
Original job description
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Original job description
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Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Platform Payments team, you'll define the engineering vision for how fiat moves into and out of Coinbase across 50+ countries and payment rails. This team builds and operates the fiat on- and off-ramps, routing, orchestration, and funds-flow services that power every customer-facing payment experience. You'll own the multi-quarter technical strategy, architect for global scale and reliability, and drive platform-level improvements that directly impact payment success rates, latency, and cost efficiency.
What you'll do:
- Define and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for Payments spanning rails, orchestration, and transfers to support new products, geos, and significant growth in payment volume.
- Architect and evolve the core Payments platform (rails integrations, routing, and funds-flow services) for high availability, low latency, and cost efficiency at global scale.
- Lead end-to-end design and rollout of large, cross-team initiatives (e.g., new global rails, decomp/migrations, resiliency programs), breaking ambiguity into clear milestones and measurable outcomes.
- Set and enforce technical standards for financial correctness across Payments, including idempotency, reconciliation, failure-mode handling, and auditability for all money-movement paths.
- Partner with FinHub, Payments Risk, Regulatory Platform, and Product to design cohesive architectures that balance customer experience, risk controls, compliance, and unit economics.
- Provide deep technical mentorship to senior and staff engineers across Payments pods, upleveling system design quality, review rigor, and long-term maintainability.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production, with deep expertise in backend programming (e.g., Go, Java, Python) and cloud-native architecture.
- Deep money-movement architecture experience including PSPs, ISO 20022, routing, double-entry ledgering, and high-volume payment systems.
- Proven track record designing highly available, high-performance systems with the ability to anticipate scaling bottlenecks and address them proactively.
- Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams and mentoring senior engineers in system design and long-term maintainability.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly to executive and cross-org stakeholders and secure alignment on high-impact technical decisions.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Job ID: P77633
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About the company
Coinbase
Large Enterprise
Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform that enables users to buy, sell, and manage digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and has grown to serve millions of users globally, providing a secure and user-friendly experience for both novice and experienced traders. Coinbase aims to create an open financial system for the world, advocating for the adoption of digital currencies while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards in various markets. Through its innovative products and services, Coinbase seeks to empower individuals and institutions to transact in cryptocurrencies with confidence.
Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform that enables users to buy, sell, and manage digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and has grown to serve millions of users globally, providing a secure and user-friendly experience for both novice and experienced traders. Coinbase aims to create an open financial system for the world, advocating for the adoption of digital currencies while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards in various markets. Through its innovative products and services, Coinbase seeks to empower individuals and institutions to transact in cryptocurrencies with confidence.