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Own end‑to‑end design, implementation, deployment and monitoring of complex risk platform features, ensuring correctness, performance and reliability. Lead architectural decisions, incident response, post‑mortems, and mentor engineers.
5+ years of backend engineering experience with Go, Ruby, Python or Java, deep knowledge of distributed, microservice and event‑driven systems, and a proven ability to turn ambiguous requirements into scalable architectures. Experience leading projects, handling incident response, and responsibly using generative AI.
The role directly reduces financial loss and protects millions of users by building real‑time fraud and risk detection systems at crypto‑market scale. It advances Coinbase’s mission to increase economic freedom through secure, trustworthy services.
Engineers who thrive on high‑impact, high‑availability work, enjoy cross‑functional collaboration with data science, product and compliance, and are comfortable mentoring and driving operational excellence. Candidates who like building AI‑native risk solutions and tackling ambiguous problems will excel.
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk)
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Risk Engineering team within the Consumer & Business group, you'll build and optimize the systems that detect and prevent fraud, manage credit and market risk, and protect millions of users from financial threats in real time at crypto-market scale. You'll provide technical leadership for end-to-end projects, drive architectural decisions that shape our risk detection and mitigation systems, and deliver complex features from inception through production. Your work directly reduces financial loss and keeps Coinbase users safe.
Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
