Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Payments Platform

  • $218K - $256.5K / year
  • US only · US; quarterly in-person sessions
  • Posted 6 days ago

About the role

Own technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase's payments platform, including integrations, routing and funds movement. Build distributed systems that process payment traffic reliably across markets.

This staff-level role sets engineering standards and improves resilience, observability and service-level objectives for critical financial infrastructure.

Remote-first in the United States. Coinbase requires quarterly in-person working sessions called surges; this is not a remote-only position.

The advertised annual salary is USD 218,025–256,500.

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How to apply

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