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We're hiring a Software Engineer to join the Risk Engineering team, within the Consumer & Business group. The team sits at the forefront of protecting Coinbase and millions of users from fraud and financial risk. We build flexible, scalable, and customizable engineering systems to detect and prevent fraud, incorporating mechanisms for risk decisioning, real-time monitoring, and intelligent mitigation. You'll design, build, and optimize risk detection and mitigation systems that balance technical excellence, system reliability, and business impact — working on some of the most critical and high-throughput services at Coinbase.
What you'll do:
- Build and maintain backend services that power risk detection, fraud prevention, and financial risk mitigation across Coinbase's platform — operating at the scale, speed, and 24x7 nature of crypto markets.
- Own feature delivery end-to-end — from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring — for risk platform capabilities that directly protect users and the business from financial threats.
- Partner with Data Science, ML, and Risk Analysts teams to develop both proactive systems (models, user-facing risk features) and reactive solutions (one-off risk mitigations, incident response tooling) that reduce fraud and financial loss.
- Drive reliability and observability in risk platform services by implementing mechanisms to identify regressions, ensure prompt visibility of issues, and contribute to incident response and post-mortems.
- Contribute to the team's engineering culture by leaving code cleaner than you found it, maintaining high code velocity, participating in code reviews, and building reusable solutions that can be leveraged across the team.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 2+ years of experience in backend software engineering, with a track record of shipping production services in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Go, Ruby, Python, Java) and experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, DynamoDB, MongoDB).
- Strong understanding of software design patterns, data structures, and algorithms — with the ability to independently manage complex tasks and work in unfamiliar systems with guidance.
- Experience building or working with high-throughput, low-latency systems — or a strong foundation in distributed systems fundamentals (APIs, event-driven architectures, cloud infrastructure).
- Clear written and verbal communication skills; ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, data science, and risk operations stakeholders.
- 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.
- Experience with risk, fraud detection, or payment systems (ACH, cards, crypto) and associated fraud patterns.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and event-streaming architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- Experience with blockchain technology (e.g., Bitcoin, Ethereum) and the unique risk challenges of crypto transactions.
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Pay Transparency Notice: 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, and vision).
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 OpportunityCoinbase 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 DisclosureFor 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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