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Coinbase

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

💰 $21.4M Post-IPO Equity on 2022-11

Consulting • Crypto • Finance

Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform that allows individuals and institutions to buy, sell, and trade various crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The company offers advanced trading tools, institutional solutions, and a self-hosted wallet for storing and managing cryptocurrencies. With a strong focus on security and transparency, Coinbase provides a trusted platform used by millions globally. It supports various features including staking, earning rewards, and spending crypto through their cards. Additionally, Coinbase provides developer tools and APIs for building onchain applications, making it a comprehensive hub for engaging in the crypto economy.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.