Coinbase is seeking to increase economic freedom in the world by building the emerging onchain platform and the future global financial system. The Risk Engineering Platform team needs to protect the platform and millions of users from fraud and financial risks by building scalable systems to detect and prevent fraud in real-time, near-real-time, and scheduled workflows, while fostering business growth and maintaining user experience.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in at least one frontend framework (React, TypeScript)
- 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
- Knowledge of machine learning models in production environments
- Experience with real-time event processing and streaming architectures (Kafka, Flink)
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for end-to-end projects while driving architectural decisions that shape our risk detection and mitigation systems.
- Manage complex projects from inception to production, mentor junior engineers, and establish technical standards that elevate the entire team's capabilities.
- Author, review, and approve technical design documents for complex features and systems
- Provide technical leadership for the delivery of end-to-end projects including implementation, deployment, and monitoring
- Design, scope, and significantly contribute to building new systems and/or major features, applying experience-based judgment
- Manage single or multiple projects end-to-end, regardless of size or complexity
- Lead team rituals including on-call rotations, code reviews, and incident response
Other
- 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.
- Support, coach, and mentor junior engineers within your team
- Share your knowledge and mastery with others, magnifying the impact of your abilities
- Make other engineers around me more efficient through guidance and best practices
