Payment Risk Intern

Rozgoo; United States; Remote; USD 34,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Fraud Risk Intern in New York to join the Payments Risk Management team. You will write SQL queries, build dashboards, and analyze risk signals to help protect customers from fraud across ACH, card, and real-time payments.

You'll collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Engineering to refine risk controls, present findings to leadership, and improve user experience while maintaining security.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a degree or certificate in technology, finance, or analytics.
• 1+ years of hands-on SQL experience through coursework, projects, or internships.
• Ability to translate data into clear, structured recommendations.
• Familiarity with dashboarding tools such as Tableau.

Responsibilities

• Write SQL queries and build dashboards to detect anomalies and analyze risk trends.
• Synthesize data findings into clear narratives and present recommendations to Payments Risk leadership.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, and Engineering to develop risk strategies.
• Evaluate rules and controls for effectiveness and lower false positives.
• Collaborate with Customer Experience and Risk Analytics to improve user journey without increasing risk.
• Document and improve risk team processes and procedures.

Skills

SQL

Tableau

Data analysis

Communication

Education

Degree/Certificate in tech/finance/analytics

Job description

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.

This is a 12-week internship during summer 2027.

Join the Payments Risk Management team as a Fraud Risk Intern based in New York. This team sits at the intersection of payments, product, and security, working to protect Coinbase customers from fraud across critical payment rails like ACH, card, and real-time payments. You'll work alongside risk professionals and product teams to strengthen fraud controls, surface actionable insights from transaction data, and help maintain a seamless user experience while keeping bad actors off the platform.

What you'll do:

• Write SQL queries and build dashboards to detect anomalous behavior, analyze risk trends, and support ongoing monitoring of payment fraud signals
• Synthesize data findings into clear narratives and present recommendations to Payments Risk leadership
• Partner with Product, Data Science, and Engineering stakeholders to develop and pressure-test risk management strategies
• Evaluate existing rules and controls for effectiveness, flagging high false-positive rates and recommending improvements
• Collaborate with Customer Experience and Risk Analytics teams to implement learnings that improve the user journey without introducing incremental risk
• Document and improve operational processes and procedures for the risk team

Required Skills and Experience:

• Currently pursuing a degree or certificate in a technology, finance, or analytics-related discipline, or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of hands-on SQL experience through coursework, projects, or prior internships
• Demonstrated ability to translate data into clear, structured recommendations (e.g., class projects, case competitions, or prior work)
• Familiarity with dashboarding tools such as Tableau,