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We're hiring a Software Engineer to join the Risk Engineering team within the Consumer Product Group. The team builds flexible, scalable 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 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 handling high-throughput workloads across multiple concurrent projects.
- Proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Go, Ruby, Python, Java) with experience working across relational and/or NoSQL databases, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and event-streaming architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- 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 distributed systems, including APIs, event-driven architectures, and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with risk, fraud detection, payment systems (ACH, cards, crypto), blockchain technology (e.g., Bitcoin, Ethereum), or the unique risk challenges associated with crypto transactions.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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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).
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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Skills Required
- 2+ years of experience in backend software engineering with a track record of shipping production services
- Proficiency in at least one backend language (Go, Ruby, Python, Java)
- Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases (Postgres, DynamoDB, MongoDB)
- Strong understanding of software design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
- Experience building or working with high-throughput, low-latency systems or distributed systems fundamentals (APIs, event-driven architectures, cloud infrastructure)
- Clear written and verbal communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams
- Responsible use of generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) with human-in-the-loop practices
- 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 crypto transaction risk challenges
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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.
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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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