Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Overseer (Platform)
Coinbase · Remote - USA
About this role
**Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Overseer (Platform)** Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? Coinbase is remote-first (remote-only isn’t the model). You’ll collaborate in-person quarterly for intense working sessions called **“surges.”** As a Senior Software Engineer on the **Overseer** team within **FinHub** in the **Platform** group, you’ll build and scale the real-time integrity layer that enforces **financial correctness** across every Coinbase fund flow. Overseer makes the rules explicit, detects violations in seconds (not quarterly reconciliations), and partners with every team that moves money. --- **What you’ll do** - Build and scale **real-time invariant enforcement** systems across Coinbase fund flows (core detection engine, invariant framework, and onboarding tooling) - Own workstreams end-to-end—from designing correctness models with partner teams to operating detection systems in production—so new fund flows are covered by Overseer’s integrity guarantees - Develop **AI-powered guardrails**, including predictive consistency models and proactive invariant discovery to surface coverage gaps before incidents - Partner with teams across **FinHub, Payments, and Trading** to design and implement correctness contracts, translating financial rules into enforceable system invariants - Mentor junior engineers on distributed systems design, correctness thinking, and production operational practices --- **Required skills & experience** - **5+ years** building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production (financial systems, payments, reconciliation, or high-reliability transactional infrastructure) - Backend proficiency (e.g., **Go, Ruby, Python**) with experience building platform-level infrastructure used by multiple teams (APIs, frameworks, detection systems) - Ability to own workstreams end-to-end in ambiguous environments, designing correctness models and operating them in production with high standards - Experience with streaming/real-time processing (e.g., **Kafka, Flink, Spark**) and distributed data stores (e.g., **Postgres, DynamoDB**) - Responsible use of **generative AI** with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and measurable improvements --- **Pay transparency** - Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): **$186,065 – $218,900 USD** --- **Notes** - **Application limit:** Maximum of **3 applications within a 6-month period** - Coinbase is an **Equal Opportunity Employer** - **Accommodations:** If you need a reasonable accommodation, email **accommodations[at]coinbase.com**
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