Remote Senior Backend Engineer — Risk Platform & AI Fraud

Coinbase, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 172,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to lead the design and delivery of complex risk platform features end-to-end, from architecture through implementation, deployment, and monitoring, with stringent requirements for correctness, performance, and reliability.

You will partner with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product and Compliance to build proactive real-time decisioning and model-driven fraud detection, mentor engineers, and drive engineering best practices across the

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience in production environments.
• Proficiency in Go, Ruby, Python, or Java with distributed-systems experience.
• Translate ambiguous requirements into clear technical plans across teams.
• Lead end-to-end projects, including scoping, design, implementation, and mentoring.
• Experience leading incident response and post-mortems for high-availability systems.
• Use generative AI responsibly with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of complex risk platform features end-to-end, from architecture through implementation, deployment, and monitoring, with stringent requirements for correctness, performance, and reliability
• Drive architectural decisions that shape risk detection and mitigation systems, balancing fraud prevention with user experience
• Partner cross-functionally with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance teams to build proactive systems and reactive tools
• Build AI-native risk systems leveraging agents to automate complex detection and response workflows
• Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, write design docs, and champion engineering best practices across the codebase
• Own system quality and operational excellence by addressing technical debt, triaging bugs, and leading incident response and post-mortems

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems design

API design

Technical leadership

Incident response

Generative AI governance

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to lead the design and delivery of complex risk platform features end-to-end, from architecture through implementation, deployment, and monitoring, with stringent requirements for correctness, performance, and reliability.

You will partner with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product and Compliance to build proactive real-time decisioning and model-driven fraud detection, mentor engineers, and drive engineering best practices across the