Senior Backend Engineer, Risk & AI Systems (Remote-First)

Coinbase, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical/dental/vision

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk) to design and optimize fraud detection, credit, and market risk systems in real time at crypto-market scale.

You will lead end-to-end projects, mentor engineers, and drive architecture decisions that balance risk with user experience. You will collaborate across Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance to build proactive and reactive risk solutions, including incident response tooling and governance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience delivering complex systems.
• Proficiency in backend languages (Go, Ruby, Python, or Java) and distributed architectures.
• Experience leading end-to-end projects with long-term impact and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design and delivery of risk platform features with high correctness and reliability.
• Drive architectural decisions for risk detection and mitigation systems.
• Collaborate with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance teams.
• Build AI-native risk systems to automate detection and response workflows.
• Mentor engineers, perform code reviews, and promote engineering best practices.

Skills

Backend development

Go / Ruby / Python / Java

Distributed systems

Architectural design

Incident response

AI in production

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk) to design and optimize fraud detection, credit, and market risk systems in real time at crypto-market scale.

You will lead end-to-end projects, mentor engineers, and drive architecture decisions that balance risk with user experience. You will collaborate across Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance to build proactive and reactive risk solutions, including incident response tooling and governance