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We're hiring a Clearing Risk Analyst to join our Clearing Risk team and help build Coinbase's clearing business, including prediction markets. This team is responsible for how the clearinghouse identifies, measures, and manages risk across clearing-member positions, margin methodologies, and settlement processes.
You'll own defined risk analysis projects from investigation through recommendation, working closely with the DCO risk lead and partnering with Product, Operations, and Finance to turn analysis into practical risk decisions that shape a growing business.
What you'll do:
• Analyze clearing-member positions, collateral, settlement obligations, and concentrations, investigating meaningful changes and exceptions and recommending follow-up actions.
• Contribute to margin methodology development and review by analyzing collateral coverage, stress scenarios, and backtesting results, and pressure-testing the assumptions behind them.
• Assess risks arising from new products, business changes, and market events by identifying potential failure scenarios and developing recommendations for the DCO risk
• lead.
• Build and refine risk reporting and recurring monitoring by validating figures against source records, defining clear metrics, distinguishing missing or stale data from genuine absence of exposure, and simplifying workflows to improve efficiency.
• Partner with Product, Operations, Finance, Legal, and Compliance to evaluate how funding, settlement, and processing failures create financial risk across the trade lifecycle, and help draft and maintain related risk procedures and control documentation.
• Prepare concise risk analyses, incident reviews, and management materials that clearly separate confirmed facts, assumptions, open questions, and recommendations.
Required Skills and Experience:
• 1 to 3 years of experience in market risk, counterparty risk, derivatives clearing, or trading operations at a major financial institution, exchange, or clearinghouse.
• Working knowledge of derivatives products and margin models, including how trades create positions, funding needs, and settlement obligations, and how initial and variation margin protect against counterparty exposure.
• Familiarity with clearing risk concepts such as stress and backtesting, collateral management, or settlement exception analysis.
• Demonstr