Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Platform - Risk)

Details

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. The Platform Product Group builds trusted, scalable, and compliant platform foundations used across Coinbase products. The Risk engineering team focuses on mitigating financial threats, detecting fraud at scale, and improving detection of legitimate user patterns. This role contributes to designing and implementing core Risk platform architecture and building critical services that power Coinbase's risk flows.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement next-generation core Risk platform architecture that powers Coinbase.
• Interact with stakeholders across product and financial operations organizations.
• Participate in shaping strategy and execution for the Risk platform.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with technical ownership.
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code to meet customer needs.
• Build and maintain high-throughput, low-latency production services at massive scale.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in backend software engineering using Golang or similar languages.
• Proven track record delivering impactful solutions that power significant risk flows.
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency production services.
• Strong technical knowledge of building distributed systems that process massive scale.
• Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact.
• Solid communication skills and ability to engage stakeholders with varying technical backgrounds.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and train other engineers.
• Relentless drive and perseverance to achieve ambitious goals.
• Passion for building an open financial system and belief in crypto/blockchain impact.

Nice to Haves

• Domain expertise in Risk engineering.
• Experience working with Machine Learning models and leveraging them to scale risk use cases.
• Experience across both startups and large enterprises.

Benefits

• Target annual salary range: $246,500 — $290,000 USD (depending on work location). Full-time offers also include target bonus, target equity, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
• Medical, dental, and vision plans with generous employee contributions.
• Health Savings Account with company contributions.
• Disability and life insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Wellness stipend, mobile/internet reimbursement, and connections stipend.
• Volunteer time off, fertility counseling and benefits, generous time off/leave policy.
• Option to be paid in digital currency.

Additional Details

• Coinbase is remote-first but not remote-only; in-person participation (team/company offsites) is required throughout the year and attendance is expected. Job ID: GPBE07US.
• Coinbase is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities.