Coinbase
Senior Engineering Manager, Payments Platform
$254K–$299K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 12, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
US - Remote Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only) - Experience
- 10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years of engineering management experience, including 2+ years managing managers.
About the job
Leads the engineering organization building and operating payment infrastructure that connects Coinbase to banks, card networks, and stablecoin settlement systems.
What you'll do
- Build and lead multiple engineering teams, including engineering managers and senior individual contributors.
- Set technical vision and architecture for payment connectivity, settlement, reconciliation, and failover.
- Own roadmap delivery, operational excellence, service reliability, and talent development in partnership with cross-functional leaders.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years of engineering management and 2+ years managing managers and scaling multi-team organizations.
- Track record delivering and operating distributed payment systems, financial infrastructure, or high-volume transactional platforms at scale; deep understanding of rails such as ACH, cards, SEPA, or wire transfers.
- Strong technical judgment in architecture, reliability, and engineering quality for critical financial services, including operational leadership through incidents.
- Experience setting strategy and delivering complex work across teams in regulated environments, partnering with Risk, Compliance, Finance, and Operations.
Pay
$253,895 — $298,700 USD annual base salary
Tools
ACH, cards, SEPA, wire transfers
AI focus
Use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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