Coinbase
Staff Software Enginer, Backend - Payments Platform
$218K–$256K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
US - Remote Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only) - Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Owns the technical strategy and builds reliable, scalable payments infrastructure for global fiat on- and off-ramps.
What you'll do
- Set the multi-year architecture and roadmap for payments integrations, routing, and funds-flow systems.
- Build and improve distributed systems, reliability practices, shared frameworks, and engineering standards.
- Partner with business teams, lead reliability initiatives, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including hands-on work with payment systems, financial infrastructure, or high-volume transactional platforms.
- Track record architecting and delivering fault-tolerant distributed systems at scale, including systems processing billions of dollars in transaction volume.
- Experience building reusable platforms, owning production reliability and incident response, and driving improvements across teams.
- Experience influencing technical direction across teams; responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.
Pay
$218,025 — $256,500 USD base salary (annual)
AI focus
Use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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