Build and scale real-time integrity systems for financial correctness at Coinbase as a Senior Software Engineer.
Posted by employer 1 day ago
First seen on Joblaze 23 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 23 hours ago
What you'll build
- Build and scale real-time invariant enforcement systems
- Own workstreams end-to-end
- Develop AI-powered guardrails
- Partner with teams to design correctness contracts
- Mentor junior engineers
Must have
- 5+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Experience in financial systems, payments, reconciliation
- Proficiency in backend programming (Go, Ruby, Python)
- Experience with streaming data infrastructure
- Experience with distributed data stores
AI in the day-to-day
Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Software Engineer on the Overseer team at Coinbase, the individual will focus on building and scaling systems that ensure financial correctness across the company's fund flows. Key skills include proficiency in backend programming languages like Go, Ruby, or Python, along with experience in large-scale distributed systems and real-time data processing. This position is suited for seasoned engineers with a strong background in financial systems and a track record of managing complex projects from inception to production. The team operates in a high-intensity environment, emphasizing collaboration across various departments to uphold the integrity of financial transaction
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze September 29, 2026. Last confirmed on Coinbase's careers page September 29, 2026.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 61% of 148 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list Python we track (median $173,958 across 64 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 41.1% of 496 comparable senior backend roles in United States; Flink appears in 1% of 496 comparable senior backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Overseer (Platform) role remote?
- Yes — Coinbase lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Coinbase lists $186,065–$218,900 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Overseer (Platform) role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: DynamoDB, Flink, Go, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Python.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coinbase targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Overseer (Platform) role at Coinbase.
From the original posting
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
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 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)).
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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