7 hours ago
Base Salary
$218k - $257k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for the Payments platform.
- Build and evolve distributed systems for high-volume payment traffic across global markets.
- Design for fault isolation, graceful degradation, observability, and clear service-level objectives.
- Establish shared frameworks, paved roads, and coding standards across the Payments team and adjacent organizations.
- Partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations on technical solutions for business and regulatory requirements.
- Lead scaling, reliability, incident-response, and postmortem-driven improvement initiatives.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews and architectural guidance.
- Use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience building payment systems, financial infrastructure, or high-volume transactional platforms.
- Experience architecting and delivering fault-tolerant, highly reliable distributed systems at scale.
- Experience processing billions of dollars in transaction volume.
- Experience leading platform-building efforts that create shared frameworks, unified APIs, or multi-tenant architectures.
- Experience owning production reliability, leading high-severity incident response, and driving systemic improvements across teams or domains.
- Experience influencing technical direction across teams and organizations without direct authority.
- Experience representing a technical area in organization-level architecture and strategy forums.
Benefits
- Remote-first, but not remote-only work arrangement, with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
- Potential equity and bonus eligibility in addition to base salary.
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About Coinbase
Coinbase builds a cryptocurrency platform for consumers, institutions, and developers to buy, sell, store, and use digital assets. Its products include the Coinbase app/exchange, Coinbase Prime for institutions, custody services, and developer APIs, and it earns primarily from transaction fees and subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and now remote-first, Coinbase is a public company (NASDAQ: COIN) serving major crypto markets in the U.S. and abroad.