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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Platform (Overseer) - **Company:** Coinbase, Inc. - **Location:** Columbus, OH, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $218,025.0 - $256,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, Fault Tolerance, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Blockchain, Ruby, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Backend, Apache Flink, Ethereum, Apache Kafka, Docker, Golang - **Published:** July 30, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/34E29920658949F6A2CFD4DCC6317282/job/ ## About the Role * 8+ years of software engineering experience. * You've built fault-tolerant, high-reliability distributed systems at scale. * Platform-builder mindset - you build infrastructure other teams depend on, not features for a single product. * Experience leading cross-functional technical work with significant company-wide impact. * Strong judgment on where to invest: you can distinguish the load-bearing correctness problem from the interesting-but-optional one. * 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: * Experience with financial systems, reconciliation, or ledgering at scale. * Streaming data infrastructure (Kafka, Flink, or similar). * You've worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Postgres, MongoDB or DynamoDB. * AI applied to predictive consistency or proactive gap discovery in financial or distributed 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. * You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers) ## Description * Define and drive the architecture of the correctness layer across Coinbase's fund flows - from real-time invariant enforcement to AI-powered guardrails. * Own the core platform: the invariant definition framework, real-time detection engine, and the APIs and tooling that partner teams use to onboard and monitor their fund flows. * Lead the AI guardrails workstream: predictive consistency models that catch deviations before settlement, and proactive invariant discovery so coverage keeps pace with AI-accelerated development. The same AI that speeds up shipping should speed up the correctness layer around it. * Set technical direction for the team, make high-stakes architecture decisions, and raise the engineering bar. * Partner cross-functionally with Transfer Service, Ledger, Payments, Risk, and Compliance to define correctness requirements and drive adoption. * Mentor engineers and translate platform vision into executable roadmap., Depending on your location, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is available here. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required. 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