Coinbase
Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Overseer (Platform)
$186K–$219K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
US - Remote Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only) - Experience
- 5+ years.
About the job
Builds and operates real-time systems that enforce financial correctness across Coinbase fund flows, detecting violations and helping teams define enforceable invariants.
What you'll do
- Build and scale invariant enforcement systems, detection tools, and onboarding tooling for fund flows.
- Own workstreams from correctness-model design through production operation, partnering with teams on enforceable contracts.
- Develop AI-powered guardrails and mentor junior engineers on distributed systems, correctness, and production practices.
What they ask for
- 5+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production, with experience in financial systems, payments, reconciliation, or high-reliability transactional infrastructure.
- Backend programming proficiency (e.g., Go, Ruby, Python) and experience building platform infrastructure used by multiple teams.
- Experience owning workstreams end-to-end, designing correctness models, and operating them in production.
- Experience with streaming data infrastructure and distributed data stores in real-time or near-real-time processing contexts.
Pay
$186,065 — $218,900 USD (annual base salary)
Tools
Go, Ruby, Python, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Postgres, DynamoDB
AI focus
Develop AI-powered guardrails, including predictive consistency models and proactive invariant discovery; use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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