Senior Software Engineer - Real-Time Financial Integrity

Coinbase, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Overseer team within FinHub in the Platform group. You will build and scale a real-time integrity layer that enforces financial correctness across fund flows and detects violations in seconds.

You will own workstreams end-to-end, from designing models to production operation. You will develop AI-powered guardrails and collaborate with FinHub, Payments, and Trading teams to formalize correctness contracts, while mentoring junior

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 (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

Backend development

Distributed systems

Go

Python

Ruby

Kafka

Flink

Spark

Postgres

DynamoDB

Tools

APIs

Frameworks

Detection systems

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Overseer team within FinHub in the Platform group. You will build and scale a real-time integrity layer that enforces financial correctness across fund flows and detects violations in seconds.

You will own workstreams end-to-end, from designing models to production operation. You will develop AI-powered guardrails and collaborate with FinHub, Payments, and Trading teams to formalize correctness contracts, while mentoring junior