Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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Coinbase
Full time
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USA
11/04/2026
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Remote

Responsibilities

Design and deliver complex risk platform features from architecture through implementation, deployment, and monitoring.
Make architectural decisions for scalable fraud detection and risk mitigation systems while balancing prevention with user experience.
Partner with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance teams on real-time decisioning, fraud detection, incident response, and risk controls.
Build AI-native risk systems using fleets of agents to automate complex detection and response workflows.
Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, write technical design documents, and promote engineering best practices.
Address technical debt, triage bugs, lead incident response and post-mortems, and improve platform reliability.

Requirements

At least 5 years of backend software engineering experience delivering complex, high-impact production systems.
Deep proficiency in Go, Ruby, Python, or Java and experience designing distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and REST or GraphQL APIs.
Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into technical plans and scalable working architectures.
Experience leading end-to-end projects spanning scoping, design, implementation, monitoring, and mentoring.
Experience leading incident response, conducting post-mortems, and improving operations in high-availability systems.
Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight to produce business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits are available.
Equity and bonus eligibility may be included in total compensation.
Remote-first work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”

Salary: $186k - $186k/yr

Coinbase

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world. The most trusted crypto platform, Coinbase stores more digital assets than any other company and is building the everything exchange — one place to access crypto, equities, derivatives, prediction markets, and more...

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