Senior Backend Software Engineer (Overseer, Platform)

Join Coinbase as a Senior Backend Software Engineer on the Overseer team within the Platform group. You will build and scale the real-time integrity layer that enforces financial correctness across every Coinbase fund flow. You will own workstreams end-to-end, from designing correctness models with partner teams to operating detection systems in production. You will also develop AI-powered guardrails and partner with teams across FinHub, Payments, and Trading to design and implement correctness contracts for new and existing fund flows. Additionally, you will 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
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
- 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
- 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
- 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