Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Risk Platform)

Details

The Risk Engineering Platform team at Coinbase builds scalable, flexible systems to detect and prevent fraud and financial risk in real-time, near-real-time, and scheduled workflows. This role provides technical leadership across end-to-end projects, shapes architecture for risk detection and mitigation systems, mentors junior engineers, and helps maintain high code quality and operational excellence. Work will directly impact millions of users and large transaction volumes.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for end-to-end projects: design, implementation, deployment, and monitoring
• Author, review, and approve technical design documents for complex features and systems
• Design, scope, and significantly contribute to new systems and major features
• Manage single or multiple projects end-to-end regardless of size or complexity
• Lead team rituals including on-call rotations, code reviews, and incident response
• Transform high-level intent and ambiguous business requirements into working architectures
• Proactively improve code quality and address technical debt across codebases
• Identify, propose, and implement scalable solutions that can be leveraged across the team
• Lead troubleshooting, bug triaging, and performance/scalability improvements
• Ensure solutions are workable for teams inside and outside your function
• Support, coach, and mentor junior engineers and share knowledge to improve team productivity

Requirements

Required

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with a track record of delivering complex systems
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects and mentor other engineers
• Deep expertise in at least one backend language (Go, Java, Python, Ruby)
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems in production
• Strong understanding of system design, architecture patterns, and trade-offs
• Proven ability to work with ambiguous requirements and drive technical clarity
• Experience leading incident response and conducting post-mortems

Preferred

• Experience with risk, fraud detection, or financial systems at scale
• Knowledge of machine learning models in production environments
• Experience with real-time event processing and streaming architectures (Kafka, Flink)
• Understanding of payment systems (ACH, cards, crypto) and associated fraud patterns
• Experience with regulatory compliance and security requirements
• Track record of improving team productivity through tooling and process improvements

Technical Skills

• Expert-level proficiency in Go, Java, or Python
• Deep understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Experience with database optimization (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake)
• Expertise in message queuing and event streaming systems
• Strong understanding of API design, RESTful services, and gRPC

Benefits

• Bonus eligibility, equity eligibility, and comprehensive benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k) where applicable)
• Health Savings Account with company contributions
• Disability and life insurance
• Wellness, connections, mobile/internet stipends
• Volunteer time off, fertility counseling and benefits
• Generous time off/leave policy and option to be paid in digital currency

Other Notes

• Role is remote-first but not remote-only; in-person participation is required throughout the year (team/company offsites expected)
• Pay transparency: target annual salary ranges depend on work location. Listed ranges include $186,065—$218,900 USD and $191,000 CAD (full-time offers also include bonus, equity, and benefits)
• Job #: GPBE05US
• Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate onchain experience
• Coinbase is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities