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Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Overseer (Platform)

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at Coinbase in Dover, Delaware, United States Job Description Ready to do the most impactful work of your career?
Athttps:
//www.coinbase.com/careers. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Overseer team within FinHub in the https://www.coinbase.com/careers/product-groups group, you'll build and scale the real-time integrity layer that enforces financial correctness across every Coinbase fund flow. Overseer makes the rules that must always hold between systems explicit, detects violations in seconds rather than quarterly reconciliations, and works with every team at Coinbase that moves money. You'll own workstreams end-to-end, from designing correctness models with partner teams to operating detection systems in production, contributing directly to the platform that keeps billions of transactions accurate and trustworthy.
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
Required Skills and Experience:
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
Pay Transparency Notice:
  • Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)). Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $186,065-$218,900 USD
  • Application Limit:
  • Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
  • Equal Opportunity Employer:
  • Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
  • US Applicants:
  • Viewhttps:
    //static-assets.coinbase.com/e-verify.pdf Notice of Participation.
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  • If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at accommodationshttp://www.chromevox.com/tutorial/.
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Benefits

  • 401(k) Plans
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance