Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coinbase is a company dedicated to increasing economic freedom and is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Overseer team within the Platform product group. The role involves defining the technical vision for a platform that ensures correctness across financial transactions and leading initiatives that enhance the reliability and performance of their systems.
Responsibilities
- Own the multi-quarter technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Overseer platform, including the invariant definition framework, real-time detection engine, and partner-facing APIs
- Lead the design and execution of company P0 initiatives end-to-end, serving as the senior DRI accountable for delivery, trade-offs, and organizational alignment across product groups
- Drive an architecture where every new product shipped accelerates the correctness layer rather than adding complexity, setting precedents that influence platform design across FinHub
- Shape engineering standards and technical culture across the team and broader FinHub organization through design reviews, architectural RFCs, and raising the bar on code quality and system reliability
- Partner with senior engineering and product leadership across product groups to align correctness requirements, resolve cross-team technical dependencies, and define shared platform contracts
- Build next-generation AI-powered guardrails and real-time invariant enforcement capabilities, identifying opportunities to apply AI-first approaches that scale correctness across Coinbase's expanding fund movement infrastructure
Skills
- 8+ years of experience designing, building, and operating fault-tolerant, high-reliability distributed systems at scale, with a track record of influencing technical direction beyond your immediate team
- Demonstrated experience as a technical lead owning architecture decisions, multi-quarter roadmaps, and cross-team initiatives that impacted organization-level outcomes
- Platform-builder mindset - proven history of building infrastructure other teams depend on, defining platform contracts, and scaling systems that support multiple product areas simultaneously
- Deep expertise in backend programming (e.g., Go, Python, Java) and designing systems for correctness, performance, and scalability in financial or high-stakes distributed environments
- Track record of elevating team and org-level technical quality through mentorship, architectural standards, engineering process improvements, and senior hiring contributions
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
Benefits
- Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k))
Company Overview
Coinbase is a crypto exchange and wallet platform that allows merchants and consumers to buy, sell, and store digital currencies. It is a sub-organization of Coinbase. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.coinbase.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Coinbase has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 30 in 2026, 181 in 2025, 92 in 2024, 96 in 2023, 284 in 2022, 183 in 2021, 66 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.