Top Engineering Jobs in San Francisco, CA

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the architecture and strategy of Payment Rails infrastructure, designing reliable distributed systems, overseeing technical direction, and collaborating cross-functionally to enhance payment processes at Coinbase.

Design and own the multi-year architecture and roadmap for Coinbase Payments. Build and scale fault-tolerant distributed systems processing high-volume transactions, improve reliability and SLOs, create shared frameworks and APIs, drive incident response and systemic improvements, and mentor engineers while partnering with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to deliver secure, scalable payment infrastructure.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build applications to enhance the productivity of Coinbase customer agents using Golang and cloud technologies, while collaborating across teams to solve complex problems and mentor others.

Build and scale full-stack customer and agent support experiences across React/TypeScript frontends and Go backends. Own APIs, integrations, and UI flows; drive CX outcomes via experimentation and instrumentation. Integrate AI/ML vendor capabilities with guardrails, participate on-call for reliability and incident response, and collaborate with Product, Design, and CX Ops to deliver measurable improvements in automation and satisfaction.

Lead architecture and delivery of Control Center platform capabilities to enable AI-agent-ready, secure, scalable internal operations. Design MCP APIs, AI orchestration, guardrails, HITL flows, and backend services; define SLOs, observability, incident response, and cross-team platform primitives while mentoring engineers and driving high-impact initiatives from design to production.

Lead the front-end technical strategy for an advanced trading platform, driving performance improvements and mentoring engineers while collaborating on a technical roadmap.

Seeking an experienced backend engineer to build and scale crypto trading systems at Coinbase. Responsibilities include architecture, guidance, and feature development for high-performance systems.

Design, build, and operate Tier-0/Tier-1 identity and account backend systems at scale. Lead the evolution to a unified Account abstraction, define APIs and data models, deliver secure multi-entity platform services, improve reliability and performance, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Infrastructure, SRE, and Compliance to ensure security, observability, and operational excellence.

Design, build, and operate core developer-infrastructure services (CI/build, deployment orchestration, test infra) at scale. Improve build/CI times, deployment safety, and test reliability. Own services end-to-end (SLOs, observability, on-call), lead cross-cutting projects, partner with engineering teams, and mentor others to drive platform impact.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the Solana staking protocol strategy, optimize validator performance, and mentor a team while representing Coinbase in the Solana ecosystem.