Senior Backend Engineer, Risk — Remote, AI-Driven Fraud

Coinbase Bridge; United States; Hybrid; USD 123,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Risk Engineering team within the Consumer & Business group. You will build and optimize systems that detect and prevent fraud, manage risk, and protect millions of users in real time at crypto-market scale.

You'll lead end-to-end projects, drive architecture decisions, and deliver complex features from inception through production. This role includes mentorship, code reviews, and advancing engineering standards across the codebase.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience in production environments.
• Proficiency in backend languages (Go, Ruby, Python, or Java) and distributed systems design.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of complex risk platform features end-to-end, from architecture to deployment and monitoring.
• Drive architectural decisions balancing fraud prevention with user experience.
• Collaborate with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance teams on proactive and reactive risk solutions.
• Develop AI-native risk systems to automate detection and response workflows.
• Mentor engineers, perform code reviews, and promote engineering best practices.

Skills

Go

Ruby

Python

Java

Distributed systems

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Risk Engineering team within the Consumer & Business group. You will build and optimize systems that detect and prevent fraud, manage risk, and protect millions of users in real time at crypto-market scale.

You'll lead end-to-end projects, drive architecture decisions, and deliver complex features from inception through production. This role includes mentorship, code reviews, and advancing engineering standards across the codebase.