Remote Senior Software Engineer - Real-Time Financial Integrity

Coinbase, Inc.; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Health insurance

Dental

Vision

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Overseer team in FinHub, Platform group. You will build and scale the real-time integrity layer that enforces financial correctness across all fund flows and detects violations in seconds.

You’ll own workstreams end-to-end—from designing correctness models to operating detection systems in production. You'll mentor junior engineers, work with cross-team partners across FinHub, Payments, and Trading, and help translate financial rules into robust

Qualifications

• 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

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
• 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

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Python

APIs

Kafka

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Production engineering

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Spark

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Go tooling

Job description

Coinbase seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Overseer team in FinHub, Platform group. You will build and scale the real-time integrity layer that enforces financial correctness across all fund flows and detects violations in seconds.

You’ll own workstreams end-to-end—from designing correctness models to operating detection systems in production. You'll mentor junior engineers, work with cross-team partners across FinHub, Payments, and Trading, and help translate financial rules into robust