Staff Software Engineer

Coinbase

Staff Software Engineer joining Payments team at Coinbase. Own architecture and technical direction of payment systems to ensure reliability and scalability.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $218,025 - $256,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the multi-year technical strategy for the Payments platform
Build and evolve distributed systems that process high-volume payment traffic
Drive engineering quality through established coding standards
Partner with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
Lead scaling and reliability initiatives

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of experience in software engineering
Hands-on experience building payment systems
Experience architecting and delivering fault-tolerant, highly reliable distributed systems at scale
Proven experience owning production reliability
History of influencing technical direction across teams
Experience with generative AI and maintaining human oversight

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k) plan

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringpayment systemsdistributed systemsfault-tolerant systemsreliable systemscoding standardsgenerative AI

Soft Skills

cross-functional collaborationinfluencing technical directionleadership