Coinbase
Financial Services
StaffSoftwareEngineer-Payments
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“Staff Software Engineer- Payments at Coinbase. Skills: Payments platform, Distributed systems, Financial infrastructure. Own multi-year technical strategy for Payments platform. Define roadmap for scaling integrations”
What You'll Achieve.
Increase economic freedom; Ensure payment reliability; Ensure payment scalability; Ensure payment correctness; Drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency; Drive measurable improvements in cost; Drive measurable improvements in quality
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting
Quarterly in-person working sessions
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years of experience in software engineering, Hands-on experience building payment systems, Hands-on experience building financial infrastructure, Hands-on experience building high-volume transactional platforms, Architecting fault-tolerant distributed systems at scale, Delivering fault-tolerant distributed systems at scale, Experience processing billions of dollars in transaction volume, Led platform-building efforts, Owning production reliability, Leading high-severity incident response, Driving systemic improvements across multiple teams or domains, Influencing technical direction across teams and organizations without direct authority, Representing your area in org-level architecture and strategy forums, Utilizes generative AI responsibly, Maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs, Drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
Nice to Have
Experience with Kubernetes, Experience with container orchestration platforms
What You'll Do.
Own multi-year technical strategy for Payments platform
Define roadmap for scaling integrations
Define roadmap for routing systems
Define roadmap for funds-flow systems
Build distributed systems processing high-volume payment traffic
Design for fault isolation
Design for graceful degradation
Design for observability
Design for clear SLOs
Drive engineering quality
Establish paved roads
Establish shared frameworks
Establish coding standards
Partner cross-functionally with Product
Partner cross-functionally with Risk
Partner cross-functionally with Compliance
Partner cross-functionally with Operations
Translate business requirements into technical solutions
Lead scaling initiatives
Lead reliability initiatives
Anticipate bottlenecks
Drive systematic improvements from incident postmortems
Strengthen team capabilities through mentorship
Strengthen team capabilities through design reviews
Strengthen team capabilities through architectural guidance
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functionally with Product; Cross-functionally with Risk; Cross-functionally with Compliance; Cross-functionally with Operations; Adjacent orgs
Communication Scope
Technical direction; Strategy forums
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
Full Job Description
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. 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. What you'll do: 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 dr
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