Senior Backend Engineer, Real-Time Risk & Fraud

Coinbase, Inc.; Olympia (WA); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical benefits (medical, dental, or視

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is the hiring entity for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend - Risk) role. You will design and optimize risk systems that protect millions of users in real time at crypto-market scale, providing technical leadership from inception to production.

You will work with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance to build proactive and reactive risk solutions. You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and ensure platform reliability through strong incident

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience delivering complex, high-impact systems in production.

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, translating ambiguous business requirements into scalable architectures balancing fraud prevention with user experience.
• Partner cross-functionally with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance to build proactive systems and reactive solutions.
• Build AI-native risk systems leveraging agents to automate complex detection and response workflows.
• Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, write design documents, and champion engineering best practices across the codebase.
• Own system quality and operational excellence by addressing technical debt and leading incident response and post-mortems.

Skills

backend software engineering

Go

Ruby

Python

Java

systems design

distributed systems

leadership

incident response

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is the hiring entity for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend - Risk) role. You will design and optimize risk systems that protect millions of users in real time at crypto-market scale, providing technical leadership from inception to production.

You will work with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance to build proactive and reactive risk solutions. You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and ensure platform reliability through strong incident