Coinbase: Payment Risk Intern — Hybrid - New York, NY

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 Payment Risk Intern in Hybrid - New York, NY, under reference 8175447. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Internships & Emerging Talent Positions
• Employer listing date: 9 September 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• Write SQL queries and build dashboards to detect anomalous behavior, analyze risk trends, and support ongoing monitoring of payment fraud signals
• Synthesize data findings into clear narratives and present recommendations to Payments Risk leadership
• Partner with Product, Data Science, and Engineering stakeholders to develop and pressure-test risk management strategies
• Evaluate existing rules and controls for effectiveness, flagging high false-positive rates and recommending improvements
• Collaboration: with Customer Experience and Risk Analytics teams to implement learnings that improve the user journey without introducing incremental risk
• Document and improve operational processes and procedures for the risk team
• Required Skills and

Essential requirements and candidate background

• Currently pursuing a degree or certificate in a technology, finance, or analytics-related discipline, or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of hands-on SQL experience through coursework, projects, or prior internships
• Translate data into clear, structured recommendations (e.g., class projects, case competitions, or prior work)
• Familiarity: dashboarding tools such as Tableau, Looker, or similar (coursework or personal projects acceptable)
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
• Position ID: P78082
• #LI-Hybrid
• Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target hourly rate for this position can range as detailed below
• Hourly Rate:
• $40 — $40 USD
• Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period
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Location, schedule and contract conditions

For this overseas or regional listing, confirm work authorisation and any location restrictions with the employer. The location does not establish visa sponsorship or permission to work remotely from India.

• Join the Payments Risk Management team as a Fraud Risk Intern based in New York
• Advertised location: Hybrid - New York, NY

Pay and application dates

A verified salary figure is not established in this article. An online estimate for another Payment Risk Intern vacancy is not an offer for reference 8175447; 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 8175447.

Compare your qualifications and experience with the essential conditions for the Hybrid - New York, NY position, then read the preferred criteria separately.

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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
• Tableau
• AI
• risk management
• stakeholder management