internship📂 Human Resources🔀 Hybrid🏭 Finance & Banking
✨ Job Highlights
★Pay: $40 an hour
★Hybrid: New York
★Internship role in human resources
★Experience asked for: 1+ years
★Apply directly on Coinbase's careers site
★Posted September 8, 2026
Full Job Description
Coinbase is hiring a Payment Risk Intern in New York. This is an internship or trainee position with a hybrid schedule. The salary range published with the job is $40 an hour.
Coinbase describes the job as follows.
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
This is a 12-week internship during summer 2027.
Join the Payments Risk Management team as a Fraud Risk Intern based in New York. This team sits at the intersection of payments, product, and security, working to protect Coinbase customers from fraud across critical payment rails like ACH, card, and real-time payments. You'll work alongside risk professionals and product teams to strengthen fraud controls, surface actionable insights from transaction data, and help maintain a seamless user experience while keeping bad actors off the platform.
What you'll do
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
Collaborate 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 Experience
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
Demonstrated ability to translate data into clear, structured recommendations (e.g., class projects, case competitions, or prior work)
Familiarity with 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
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Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target hourly rate for this position can range as detailed below.
Hourly Rate: $40 to $40 USD
Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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. Need screen reading technology? Click here to download a free compatible screen reader and view thetutorial.
It is hybrid. You would work partly from home and partly from the office in New York.
What does Coinbase look for in candidates?
The posting mentions at least 1 years of relevant experience and skills such as SQL, Rails, Tableau and Looker. Read the full description above for the complete list.
How do I apply?
Use the apply button on this page. It takes you to Coinbase's own application form, so your CV goes directly to their hiring team.
Is this job still open?
Coinbase published the role on September 8, 2026. We check the employer's job board every day and take this page down when the role closes, so if you can read it, the job was still listed at our last check.
Source: Coinbase careers page (www.coinbase.com). Applications go straight to the employer. We check the listing daily and remove it once it closes.
Required Skills
SQLRailsTableauLooker
🏢 About Coinbase
Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of? 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. To achieve our mission, 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…
