Senior Backend Engineer, AI-Driven Risk Platform

Coinbase, Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk) to build and optimize fraud detection, risk management, and protection for millions of users in real time at crypto-market scale. You will provide technical leadership for end-to-end projects, driving architectural decisions and delivering complex features from inception through production.

Your work will partner with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance teams to build proactive systems and reactive

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering in production environments.
• Proficiency in Go, Ruby, Python or Java and distributed systems design.
• Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, REST/GraphQL APIs

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of risk platform features end-to-end.
• Drive architectures balancing fraud prevention and user experience.
• Partner with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance teams.
• Build AI-native risk systems with agents to automate workflows.
• Mentor engineers, review code, document designs, and promote best practices.
• Own system quality, drive bug triage and incident post-mortems.

Skills

Go

Ruby

Python

Java

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk) to build and optimize fraud detection, risk management, and protection for millions of users in real time at crypto-market scale. You will provide technical leadership for end-to-end projects, driving architectural decisions and delivering complex features from inception through production.

Your work will partner with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance teams to build proactive systems and reactive