Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Overseer

🕒 September 28

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $186.1k - $218.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Coinbase

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

💰 $21.4M Post-IPO Equity on 2022-11

Consulting • Crypto • Finance

Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform that allows individuals and institutions to buy, sell, and trade various crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The company offers advanced trading tools, institutional solutions, and a self-hosted wallet for storing and managing cryptocurrencies. With a strong focus on security and transparency, Coinbase provides a trusted platform used by millions globally. It supports various features including staking, earning rewards, and spending crypto through their cards. Additionally, Coinbase provides developer tools and APIs for building onchain applications, making it a comprehensive hub for engaging in the crypto economy.

📋 Description

• Build and scale real-time invariant enforcement systems across Coinbase's fund flows • Contribute to the core detection engine, invariant framework, and onboarding tooling • Own workstreams end-to-end, from designing correctness models with partner teams through production operation • Ensure new fund flows are covered by Overseer's integrity guarantees • Develop AI-powered guardrails, including predictive consistency models and proactive invariant discovery • Partner with FinHub, Payments, and Trading teams to design and implement correctness contracts • Translate financial rules into enforceable system invariants • Mentor junior engineers on distributed systems design, correctness thinking, and production operational practices

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production • Experience in financial systems, payments, reconciliation, or high-reliability transactional infrastructure • Proficiency in backend programming, such as Go, Ruby, or Python • Experience building platform-level infrastructure consumed by multiple teams, including APIs, frameworks, or detection systems • Ability to own workstreams end-to-end in ambiguous environments • Experience designing correctness models and operating them through production • Experience with streaming data infrastructure such as Kafka, Flink, Spark, or similar • Experience with distributed data stores such as Postgres, DynamoDB, or equivalent • Experience in real-time or near-real-time processing contexts • Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight • Eligible to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity eligibility • Bonus eligibility • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k) • Quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges”

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