The opportunity
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
What you'll do
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
+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production,: with experience in financial systems, payments, reconciliation, or high-reliability transactional infrastructure
What they're looking for
- 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