Payments Risk Analyst II

Details

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency — it's a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for in-person working sessions called “surges.”

Role summary

As a Payments Risk Analyst II on the Risk & Fraud team within the Consumer & Business group, you'll own the identification and mitigation of fraud risk across Coinbase's fiat payment rails, protecting the company's bottom line and millions of customers without degrading the user experience. You'll join a team that is modernizing its risk controls and building next-generation fraud prevention systems, giving you the opportunity to shape how we protect customers at scale across one of crypto's highest-volume retail platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end risk controls for ACH payments, scaling fraud prevention processes to keep pace with business expansion.
• Drive detection and mitigation of fraudulent deposit activity by implementing targeting logic against bad actors and high-risk behavior.
• Lead quantitative analysis of fraud performance, measuring rule precision and recall, assessing the financial impact of decisions, and surfacing tradeoffs to leadership with clear, data-backed recommendations.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Growth, Data Science, Risk ML, and Engineering to develop and iterate on risk management strategies, including the transition from heuristic rules to model-driven and synchronous friction controls.
• Execute investigations into anomalous customer and transaction behavior, proactively identifying monitoring gaps and closing them before they become losses.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in risk, fraud, or payments operations, with at least 2 years focused on payments fraud prevention in a fintech, e-commerce, or financial services environment.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience querying and analyzing large datasets using SQL, with the ability to independently scope and execute analytics projects end-to-end.
• Demonstrated experience using identity-provider data and fraud-detection tooling to implement and tune risk controls.
• Proven ability to measure the financial impact of fraud decisions and communicate findings to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of ACH payment processing and applicable NACHA rules.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Compensation & benefits

• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $135,320 — $159,200 USD. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Additional information

• Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
• Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides accommodation for individuals with disabilities (contact accommodations[at]coinbase.com).
• Coinbase pilots AI tools for initial screening interviews and interview intelligence; they state they will not use AI to make employment decisions.