Coinbase

Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Overseer (Platform)

Remote - USA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$186k-$219kDetected 1 day ago
PythonGoRubyDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLDynamoDBKafkaSparkLLMsDetection Engineering

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64Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role100
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

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Green-card follow-through: 56%

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About the role

  • Ready to do the most impactful work of your career?
  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • 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
  • 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
  • 5+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production, with experience in financial systems, payments, reconciliation, or high-reliability transactional infrastructure
  • 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
  • Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Requirements

  • 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
  • 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
  • Required Skills and Experience:

Compensation

  • $186,065 - $218,900 USD
  • 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)).
  • Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

Benefits

  • Develop AI-powered guardrails including predictive consistency models that flag deviations at initiation and proactive invariant discovery that surfaces coverage gaps before incidents occur

Company info

  • At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.

Equal opportunity

  • Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
  • Accommodations: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at accommodations[at]coinbase.com.
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