Senior Software Engineer, Backend; Platform - Risk

Overview

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of? At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up.

We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. If you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be. While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment.

Attendance is expected and fully supported.

We’re looking to hire a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join one of our teams within the Platform Product Group. The Platform Product Group’s mission is to build a trusted, scalable, and compliant platform to maximize velocity, efficiency and quality. They build the foundations that can be used by multiple products and teams at Coinbase so that users can have a consistent and high-quality experience.

The Risk engineering team has a critical charter to effectively manage the financial threats to both the business and the Coinbase users. By joining the team, you will continue to build the platform and critical services to mitigate fraudulent activities at scale, and improve the detection of good user patterns.

• Design and implement next generation core Risk platform architecture that power Coinbase
• Interact with stakeholders in many different organizations that build Coinbase products or responsible for financial operations
• Participate in shaping of the strategy and execution path of Risk platform
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers

• 12+ years of experience in backend software engineering using Golang or similar languages
• Proven track record of delivering impactful solutions that power significant risk flows
• You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained high throughput and low latency production services
• You’ve experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• Strong technical knowledge of building distributed systems that process massive scale
• Solid communication skills, ability to communicate to stakeholders with various technical and non-technical backgrounds
• Relentless drive to set and perseverance to achieve ambitious goals
• Passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together

• Domain expertise in Risk engineering
• Worked closely in Machine Learning models and leveraged the models to scale the execution of risk use cases at large scale
• Experience both in startups and large enterprises

Job

Pay Transparency Notice:
Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

Pay Range: $246,500—$290,000 USD

Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase s roles before applying.

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