Senior Software Engineer — Real-Time Financial Integrity

Coinbase, Inc.; Boise (ID); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity eligibility

Bonus eligibility

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Overseer team in FinHub within the Platform group.

You will build and scale a real-time integrity layer enforcing financial correctness across all fund flows, owning workstreams from design to production and producing invariant guarantees across the system. You will collaborate with FinHub, Payments, and Trading to translate complex financial rules into robust invariants, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to a highly reliable

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.

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

Backend programming

Go

Ruby

Python

End-to-end ownership

Generative AI usage

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Spark

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Overseer team in FinHub within the Platform group.

You will build and scale a real-time integrity layer enforcing financial correctness across all fund flows, owning workstreams from design to production and producing invariant guarantees across the system. You will collaborate with FinHub, Payments, and Trading to translate complex financial rules into robust invariants, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to a highly reliable