Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Overseer (Platform)

Overview

Senior Software Engineer on the Overseer team within FinHub in the Platform group, building and scaling a real-time integrity layer that enforces financial correctness across Coinbase fund flows.

What you'll do

• Build and scale real-time invariant enforcement systems across Coinbase's fund flows, contributing to the core detection engine, invariant framework, and onboarding tooling that partner teams rely on
• Own workstreams end-to-end, from designing correctness models with partner teams through production operation, ensuring new fund flows are covered by Overseer's integrity guarantees
• Develop AI-powered guardrails including predictive consistency models that flag deviations at initiation and proactive invariant discovery that surfaces coverage gaps before incidents occur
• Partner with teams across FinHub, Payments, and Trading to design and implement correctness contracts for new and existing fund flows, translating financial rules into enforceable system invariants
• Mentor junior engineers on distributed systems design, correctness thinking, and production operational practices

What you'll need

• 5+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production, with experience in financial systems, payments, reconciliation, or high-reliability transactional infrastructure
• Proficiency in backend programming (e.g., Go, Ruby, Python) with experience building platform-level infrastructure consumed by multiple teams, including APIs, frameworks, or detection systems
• Demonstrated ability to own workstreams end-to-end in ambiguous environments, designing correctness models and operating them through production with high standards for system-level behavior
• Experience with streaming data infrastructure (Kafka, Flink, Spark, or similar) and distributed data stores (Postgres, DynamoDB, or equivalent) in real-time or near-real-time processing contexts
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Details

• Remote-first, but not remote-only; expect to get together quarterly for in-person working sessions called "surges"
• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $186,065 — $218,900 USD
• Total compensation may include equity, bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k))
• Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period