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. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for

"good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for

intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

We're hiring a Software Engineer to join the Risk Engineering team within the Consumer Product Group. The team builds flexible,

scalable systems to detect and prevent fraud, incorporating mechanisms for risk decisioning, real-time monitoring, and intelligent

mitigation. You'll design, build, and optimize risk detection and mitigation systems that balance technical excellence, system

reliability, and business impact, working on some of the most critical and high-throughput services at Coinbase.

What you'll do

Build and maintain backend services that power risk detection, fraud prevention, and financial risk mitigation across

Coinbase's platform, operating at the scale, speed, and 24x7 nature of crypto markets.

Own feature delivery end-to-end, from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring, for risk

platform capabilities that directly protect users and the business from financial threats.

Partner with Data Science, ML, and Risk Analysts teams to develop both proactive systems (models, user-facing risk features)

and reactive solutions (one-off risk mitigations, incident response tooling) that reduce fraud and financial loss.

Drive reliability and observability in risk platform services by implementing mechanisms to identify regressions, ensure prompt

visibility of issues, and contribute to incident response and post-mortems.

Contribute to the team's engineering culture by maintaining high code velocity, participating in code reviews, and building

reusable solutions that can be leveraged across the team.

Required Skills and Experience

2+ years of experience in backend software engineering, with a track record of shipping production services handling

high-throughput workloads across multiple concurrent projects.

Proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Go, Ruby, Python, Java) with experience working across relational and/or

NoSQL databases, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and event-streaming architectures (Kafka,

RabbitMQ).

Strong understanding of software design patterns, data structures, and algorithms, with the ability to independently manage

complex tasks and work in unfamiliar systems with guidance.

Experience building or working with high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems, including APIs, event-driven

architectures, and cloud infrastructure.

Experience with risk, fraud detection, payment systems (ACH, cards, crypto), blockchain technology (e.g., Bitcoin, Ethereum),

or the unique risk challenges associated with crypto transactions.

Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable

improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

P77063

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Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also

include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$154,000—$154,000 CAD

Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for

employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability,

protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with

applicable federal, state, and local laws.

US Applicants: View Employee Rights, Know Your Rights, and E-Verify Notice of Participation.
Accommodations: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and

contact info at accommodations[at]coinbase.com. Need screen reading technology? Click here to download a free compatible screen

reader and view the tutorial.

Data Privacy & Arbitration: By submitting your application, you agree to our Candidate Privacy Notice. US applicants: By

submitting your application, you agree to Arbitration of Disputes.

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Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk)

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