Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Overseer (Platform)

Job Description

Build and operate real-time systems that enforce financial correctness across Coinbase fund flows, including detection engines, invariant frameworks, and onboarding tools. Partner with teams to define and implement correctness contracts, develop AI-powered guardrails, and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements: Requires 5+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, ideally in financial systems, payments, reconciliation, or other high-reliability transactional infrastructure. Candidates should have backend and platform infrastructure experience, streaming data and distributed data store expertise, end-to-end ownership skills, and responsible generative AI usage.

Key Skills: Distributed Systems, Backend Programming, Go, Ruby, Python, Financial Systems, Payments, Reconciliation, Platform Infrastructure, APIs, Streaming Data, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Postgres, DynamoDB

Benefits: Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, 401(k), Equity, Bonus Eligibility