Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Platform (Overseer)

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Senior Software Engineer Backend - Platform (Overseer)

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Hiring Remotely in USA
Remote
186K-219K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
Coinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people.
The Role
Build and scale real-time invariant enforcement across fund flows contribute to core platform development mentor junior engineers and operate correctness models in production.
Summary Generated by Built In

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

At Coinbase our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us every day as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards not away from solving the company’s hardest problems.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you there’s no better place to be.

While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration connection and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

The Overseer team is Coinbase’s business integrity layer. We make the financial contracts between Coinbase’s systems explicit — the rules that must always hold across every fund flow — and detect violations in real time. When something breaks we know within seconds not in the quarterly reconciliation. We work with every team at Coinbase that moves money.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

  • Build and scale real-time invariant enforcement across Coinbase’s fund flows.
  • Contribute to the core platform: the detection engine invariant framework and tooling that partner teams use to onboard their fund flows.
  • Own workstreams end-to-end: from designing correctness models with partner teams to operating them in production.
  • Build AI guardrails that close the velocity gap: predictive consistency models that flag deviations at initiation (not after settlement) and proactive invariant discovery that surfaces coverage gaps before any team asks — before incidents not because of them.
  • Mentor junior engineers and lead technical execution on high-impact projects.

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

  • 5+ years of software development experience with large-scale distributed systems.
  • Strong sense of correctness — not just "does the code work" but "is the system as a whole behaving correctly."
  • Experience building platform-level infrastructure used by multiple teams.
  • Strong ownership: you hold the problem not just the ticket.
  • Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g. LibreChat Gemini Glean) in daily workflows continuously learn as tools evolve and apply human‑in‑the‑loop practices to deliver business‑ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency cost and quality.

Nice to haves:

  • You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size).
  • Experience with financial payments or reconciliation systems.
  • Streaming data infrastructure (Kafka Flink Spark or similar).
  • You’ve worked with Golang Ruby Docker Postgres MongoDB or DynamoDB.
  • You’ve built financial high reliability or security systems.
  • Crypto-forward experience including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses using ENS and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.

Job #: P76354

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical dental vision and 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):
$186065$218900 USD

Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

Coinbase is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion creed gender national origin age disability veteran status sex gender expression or identity sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal state and local law.  For US applicants you may view the Employee Rights and the Know Your Rights notices by clicking on their corresponding links. Additionally Coinbase participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. 

Coinbase is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process please contact us at accommodations[at]coinbase.com to let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.   For quick access to screen reading technology compatible with this site click here to download a free compatible screen reader (free step by step tutorial can be found here).

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AI Disclosure

For select roles Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. A human recruiter will review your interview responses provided in the form of a voice recording and/or transcript to assess them against the qualifications and characteristics outlined in the job description.  

For select roles Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate. 

The above pilots are for testing purposes and Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment. To request a reasonable accommodation due to disability please contact accommodations[at]coinbase.com

 


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4700 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Crypto creates economic freedom by ensuring that people can participate fairly in the economy and Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people. We’re updating the century-old financial system by providing a trusted platform that makes it easy for people and institutions to engage with crypto assets including trading staking safekeeping spending and fast free global transfers. We also provide critical infrastructure for onchain activity and support builders who share our vision that onchain is the new online. And together with the crypto community we advocate for responsible rules to make the benefits of crypto available around the world.

Why Work With Us

We have the opportunity to accelerate the pace of innovation in the world by building an open financial system. Our vision is to create more economic freedom in the world to help people control their own wealth start companies have financial privacy and participate in the global economy. And to get us there we focus build and move as a team.

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04/09/2026

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