Payment Risk Intern, Coinbase

Summer 2025

Salary not provided

$30—$30 USD

SQL
Tableau
Looker
New York
Coinbase

The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies

Open for applications

Coinbase

The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies

1001+ employees

FintechB2CB2BCryptocurrencySaaS

Open for applications

Salary not provided

$30—$30 USD

SQL
Tableau
Looker
New York

1001+ employees

FintechB2CB2BCryptocurrencySaaS

Company mission

Their mission is to create an open financial system for the world and to be the leading global brand for helping people convert digital currency into and out of their local currency.

Role

Who you are

  • We’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system
  • We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems
  • Some proficiency (~1 years) SQL experience
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Excellent analytical and investigative skills, and strong curiosity to uncover trends
  • Excellent time management and prioritization; enjoy operating in a dynamic and fast-paced environment

Desirable

  • Currently pursuing a degree or certificate in a technology or finance related discipline
  • Some proficiency (1+ years) in dashboarding tools (Tableau, Looker, etc.) preferred but not required
  • Basic knowledge of the crypto economy, or a desire to learn

What the job involves

  • This is a 12-week internship during summer 2025
  • At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system
  • Coinbase is looking for a highly motivated Fraud Risk Intern to support our Payments Risk Management team
  • You will play a critical role to help identify and prevent fraud on our critical payment rails
  • Working closely with risk professionals and product teams, your responsibilities will include ensuring that effective controls are in place while maintaining a strong user experience, monitoring and reporting risks, and contributing to thought leadership to prevent fraud
  • This role will be based in New York
  • What you’ll be doing:
  • Work with internal stakeholders in Product, Data Science, and Engineering to develop and drive forward custom risk management strategies
  • Write SQL and build dashboards to detect anomalous behavior, analyze risk trends, and support monitoring
  • Synthesize data learnings into compelling stories and communicate them to Payments Risk leadership
  • Partner with consumer product teams to improve the user journey without introducing incremental risk
  • Proactively identify rules and controls in place that are ineffective, or that have high false positives
  • Partner with Customer Experience and Risk Analytics team to implement learnings
  • Document and improve processes and procedures

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Insights

Led by a woman
Top investors

-24% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • 12 weeks maternity/paternity leave
  • Vision and dental care
  • Commuter benefits
  • Learning and development budget
  • Unlimited paid time off policy
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Oct 2018

$300m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Oct 2018

$108.1m

SERIES D

Total funding: $633.4m

Our take

Coinbase allows its users to create their own crypto wallets and start buying or selling cryptocurrencies by connecting with their bank accounts. It also provides a series of merchant payment processing systems and tools that support transactions with many popular websites.

Coinbase has recently made a big push to broaden its services away from consumers and they want to cater services from institutional investors.

Coinbase currently offers one of the largest selection of cryptocurrency assets - over 10,000 but does not allow trading on all of them. The company wisely keeps such offerings to the most stable assets however, the list is always expanding. Coinbase see a much wider adoption of cryptocurrency and tokens in the future, and plan to expand potentially to millions in the future. It speaks volumes to Coinbase's goals of wider global adoption that former UK Finance Minister George Osborne is now an Advisor at the company.

Coinbase's lofty ambitions paid off in it being the first crypto listing on the NASDAQ. The company has weathered several bull and bear runs in the cryptocurrency industry through diversification of its offerings, including wallet-as-a-service technology for crypto platforms, and has acquired healthy coffers of cryptocurrency assets. The aim is to eventually operate independently of the volatility surrounding cryptocurrencies.

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