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Design, build, and operate real‑time invariant enforcement systems and AI‑powered guardrails, own end‑to‑end workstreams from correctness models to production, and mentor junior engineers.
5+ years building large‑scale distributed, high‑reliability financial or payment systems; strong backend skills in Go, Ruby or Python; experience with streaming (Kafka, Flink, Spark) and distributed stores (Postgres, DynamoDB).
The role powers Coinbase’s core integrity layer, guaranteeing financial correctness across billions of fund flows and preventing costly reconciliation failures.
Senior engineers who thrive in ambiguous, high‑impact environments, enjoy full‑stack ownership of critical infrastructure, and can collaborate across FinHub, Payments, and Trading while guiding junior team members.
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.
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