12 hours ago
Base Salary
$186k - $186k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver complex risk platform features from architecture through implementation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Make architectural decisions for scalable fraud detection and risk mitigation systems while balancing prevention with user experience.
- Partner with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance teams on real-time decisioning, fraud detection, incident response, and risk controls.
- Build AI-native risk systems using fleets of agents to automate complex detection and response workflows.
- Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, write technical design documents, and promote engineering best practices.
- Address technical debt, triage bugs, lead incident response and post-mortems, and improve platform reliability.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of backend software engineering experience delivering complex, high-impact production systems.
- Deep proficiency in Go, Ruby, Python, or Java and experience designing distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and REST or GraphQL APIs.
- Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into technical plans and scalable working architectures.
- Experience leading end-to-end projects spanning scoping, design, implementation, monitoring, and mentoring.
- Experience leading incident response, conducting post-mortems, and improving operations in high-availability systems.
- Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight to produce business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits are available.
- Equity and bonus eligibility may be included in total compensation.
- Remote-first work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”
About Coinbase
Coinbase builds a cryptocurrency platform for consumers, institutions, and developers to buy, sell, store, and use digital assets. Its products include the Coinbase app/exchange, Coinbase Prime for institutions, custody services, and developer APIs, and it earns primarily from transaction fees and subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and now remote-first, Coinbase is a public company (NASDAQ: COIN) serving major crypto markets in the U.S. and abroad.