Coinbase: Payments Risk Analyst II — Remote - USA

About Coinbase

Coinbase works on digital-asset and financial technology, with its recruitment material discussing an open financial system and crypto-related markets. Its advertised business activities connect consumer and business products with engineering, financial operations and regulated-market development. The company describes local product initiatives alongside the compliance, policy and operational work needed to support them. This gives the business both a technology dimension and a financial-services context, with product delivery linked to the requirements of the markets in which it operates.

The position and its setting

Coinbase lists Payments Risk Analyst II in Remote - USA, under reference 7984814. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Risk & Fraud
• Employer listing date: 8 June 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• Own end-to-end risk controls for ACH payments, scaling fraud prevention processes to keep pace with business expansion
• Drive detection and mitigation of fraudulent deposit activity by implementing targeting logic against bad actors and high-risk behavior
• Leadership: quantitative analysis of fraud performance, measuring rule precision and recall, assessing the financial impact of decisions, and surfacing tradeoffs to leadership with clear, data-backed recommendations
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Growth, Data Science, Risk ML, and Engineering to develop and iterate on risk management strategies, including the transition from heuristic rules to model-driven and synchronous friction controls
• Execute investigations into anomalous customer and transaction behavior, proactively identifying monitoring gaps and closing them before they become losses
• Required Skills and

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 4+ years of experience in risk, fraud, or payments operations, with at least 2 years focused on payments fraud prevention in a fintech, e-commerce, or financial services environment
• 2+ years of hands-on experience querying and analyzing large datasets using SQL, with the ability to independently scope and execute analytics projects end-to-end
• Demonstrated experience using identity-provider data and fraud-detection tooling to implement and tune risk controls
• Ability to measure the financial impact of fraud decisions and communicate findings to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
• Demonstrated working knowledge of ACH payment processing and applicable NACHA rules
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
• Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below)
• Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k))

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• $135,320 — $159,200 USD
• Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period
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• Accommodations: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at accommodations[at]coinbase.com
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Location, schedule and contract conditions

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• Work arrangement: Remote
• Advertised location: Remote - USA

Pay and application dates

A verified salary figure is not established in this article. An online estimate for another Payments Risk Analyst II vacancy is not an offer for reference 7984814; use the employer’s own pay disclosure and recruitment communication.

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How to apply to Coinbase

Applications follow the official employer page linked below.

Open the official Coinbase posting below and match the title and reference 7984814.

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Practical preparation: SQL

SQL references usually call for more detail than “database knowledge”. Explain the data you queried, the business or engineering question and how you checked that joins, aggregates and filters produced the intended result.

Relevant skills

• SQL
• AI/ML
• AI
• risk management
• stakeholder management