Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Overseer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop and enhance real-time invariant enforcement systems across the financial flows at Coinbase.

• Play a key role in the core detection engine, invariant framework, and onboarding tools.

• Manage workstreams from inception to completion, collaborating with partner teams to create correctness models and oversee production operations.

• Guarantee that new fund flows are protected by Overseer's integrity assurances.

• Create AI-driven guardrails, including predictive consistency models and proactive invariant identification.

• Collaborate with FinHub, Payments, and Trading teams to formulate and execute correctness contracts.

• Convert financial regulations into actionable system invariants.

• Provide mentorship to junior engineers in distributed systems design, correctness methodologies, and best practices for production operations.

• Develop and expand the real-time integrity layer that enforces financial correctness throughout Coinbase's fund flows.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in building and managing large-scale distributed systems in a production environment.

• Background in financial systems, payments, reconciliation, or high-reliability transactional infrastructure.

• Strong programming skills in backend languages such as Go, Ruby, or Python.

• Experience in constructing platform-level infrastructure utilized by various teams, including APIs, frameworks, or detection systems.

• Capacity to independently manage workstreams in uncertain environments.

• Proven experience in designing correctness models and maintaining them through production phases.

• Familiarity with streaming data infrastructures like Kafka, Flink, Spark, or similar technologies.

• Experience with distributed data stores such as Postgres, DynamoDB, or comparable systems.

• Knowledge of real-time or near-real-time processing contexts.

• Responsible application of generative AI with appropriate human oversight.

• Must reside in the USA.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for equity.

• Bonus eligibility.

• Medical insurance coverage.

• Dental insurance coverage.

• Vision insurance coverage.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Quarterly in-person working sessions known as “surges.”

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

• Complimentary compatible screen reader available for applicants requiring screen-reading technology.