Senior Backend Engineer, Risk & Fraud Platform (Remote)

Coinbase, Inc.; Salem (OR); Remote; USD 167,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will lead end-to-end risk platform features, influence architecture, and collaborate across Data Science, ML, Risk, Product, and Compliance teams. The role emphasizes technical leadership, ownership of system quality, incident response, and delivering business-ready features with careful attention to performance and

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend development experience in production systems.
• Experience designing distributed systems including microservices and APIs.
• Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into clear technical plans.
• Experience leading incidents, post-mortems and driving improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of complex risk platform features end-to-end, from architecture through implementation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Drive architectural decisions shaping risk detection and mitigation systems.
• Partner with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance teams to build proactive systems and reactive tooling.
• Build AI-native risk systems leveraging agents to automate detection and response workflows.
• Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and document technical designs.
• Own system quality and incident response to ensure platform reliability.

Skills

Go

Ruby

Python

Java

Distributed systems

REST APIs

GraphQL

Leadership

Tools

Microservices

Event-driven

Job description

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

You will lead end-to-end risk platform features, influence architecture, and collaborate across Data Science, ML, Risk, Product, and Compliance teams. The role emphasizes technical leadership, ownership of system quality, incident response, and delivering business-ready features with careful attention to performance and