Coinbase · 15 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Risk Platform)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$186K/yr - $219K/yr
5+ years expCoinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Risk Engineering Platform team. This role involves providing technical leadership for projects that protect the platform and users from financial risks while mentoring junior engineers and driving architectural decisions.
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Responsibilities
Author, review, and approve technical design documents for complex features and systems
Provide technical leadership for the delivery of end-to-end projects including implementation, deployment, and monitoring
Design, scope, and significantly contribute to building new systems and/or major features, applying experience-based judgment
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 the team's code bases
Identify, propose, and implement scalable solutions that can be leveraged across the team
Build systems or features that accelerate the team's ability to deliver high-quality work
Address almost all high-impact debt and quality problems while maintaining existing systems
Lead the team's troubleshooting, bug triaging, and performance/scalability improvements
Ensure solutions are workable for teams inside and outside your function
Support, coach, and mentor junior engineers within your team
Share your knowledge and mastery with others, magnifying the impact of your abilities
Make other engineers around me more efficient through guidance and best practices
Take ownership of unowned or undesirable work that enables the team to move faster
Work with EMs and PMs to champion prioritization
Qualification
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
Benefits
Bonus eligibility
Equity eligibility
Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
Company
Coinbase
Coinbase is a crypto exchange and wallet platform that allows merchants and consumers to buy, sell, and store digital currencies.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4.45BKey Investors
ARK Investment ManagementTiger Global ManagementIVP
2025-08-05Post Ipo Debt· $2.6B
2025-03-04Post Ipo Equity· $8M
2024-03-13Post Ipo Debt· $1.1B
Leadership Team
Brian Armstrong
CEO & Co-Founder
Alesia Haas
CFO
Recent News
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