[Remote] Staff Software Engineer- Payments

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coinbase is a remote-first company focused on increasing economic freedom. They are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the Payments team, responsible for building and operating the infrastructure and APIs for fiat on- and off-ramps, ensuring reliability and scalability as the company expands.ResponsibilitiesOwn the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for the Payments platform, defining the roadmap for scaling integrations, routing, and funds-flow systems across global marketsBuild 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 servicesDrive engineering quality by establishing paved roads, shared frameworks, and coding standards that elevate the technical bar across the Payments team and adjacent orgsPartner cross-functionally with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to translate ambiguous business requirements into well-scoped technical solutions that balance speed, safety, and regulatory needsLead high-stakes scaling and reliability initiatives, anticipating bottlenecks before they occur and driving systematic improvements from incident postmortemsStrengthen team capabilities through hands-on mentorship, design reviews, and architectural guidance that accelerate the growth of engineers across the teamSkills8+ years of experience in software engineering, including hands-on experience building payment systems, financial infrastructure, or high-volume transactional platformsDemonstrated track record of architecting and delivering fault-tolerant, highly reliable distributed systems at scale, with experience processing billions of dollars in transaction volumeLed platform-building efforts that transformed fragmented services into coherent, reusable systems (e.g., shared frameworks, unified APIs, multi-tenant architectures)Proven experience owning production reliability, leading high-severity incident response, and driving systemic improvements across multiple teams or domainsHistory of influencing technical direction across teams and organizations without direct authority, including representing your area in org-level architecture and strategy forumsUtilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and qualityBenefitsEquity and bonus eligibilityBenefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k))Company OverviewCoinbase is a crypto exchange and wallet platform that allows merchants and consumers to buy, sell, and store digital currencies. It is a sub-organization of Coinbase. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.coinbase.com.