Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Risk Platform at Coinbase — Remote North America

About the team:

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.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

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.

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

10+ 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

Nice to haves:

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 ID: P68521

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Risk Platform

About the team:

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

Nice to haves:

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