Coinbase
Senior Software Engineer (Institutional, Settlements & Transfers)
$208K–$219K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
US - Remote Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only) - Experience
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining production services at scale.
About the job
Own and scale backend infrastructure for institutional settlements and transfers across fiat, crypto, and internal ledgers.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and scale settlement and transfer services; improve system performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Drive technical direction, architecture, code quality, and production issue resolution.
- Partner across teams on technical roadmaps and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Production backend engineering experience with Go or a similar backend language, relational data stores such as Postgres or equivalent, and message-based architectures such as Kafka or equivalent.
- Ability to own system design decisions, lead technical proposals, and align engineering teams.
- Track record resolving quality, performance, and scalability issues in distributed systems.
- Experience mentoring engineers and supporting high code quality through reviews, testing, and documentation.
Pay
$207,955 — $218,900 USD annual base salary
Tools
Go, Postgres, Kafka
AI focus
Use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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