Hybrid Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Platform Risk

at Coinbase

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Platform Risk
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $186,065 - $218,900 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, Java, Kafka, Python, Ruby, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer providing technical leadership and managing complex projects on the Risk Engineering team at Coinbase. Delivering scalable solutions for risk detection and fraud prevention.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for end-to-end projects while driving architectural decisions
• Manage complex projects from inception to production
• Mentor junior engineers and establish technical standards
• Author, review, and approve technical design documents for complex features and systems
• 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
• Ensure solutions are workable for teams inside and outside your function

Requirements

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

Benefits

• Bonus eligibility
• Equity eligibility
• Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))