or apply directly on Moonpay's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 23 days Moonpay's roles stay open a median of 32 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 32% of Moonpay's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Moonpay
- low 0 stale, 2 reposted of 22 open
- Hiring momentum
- 36 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Moonpay's own lever board since 2026-08-04. Full hiring picture for Moonpay.
About this role
As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at MoonPay, you will be responsible for owning the decisioning system and platform that processes real-time transactions, focusing on fraud detection and prevention. Your role involves building and maintaining the entire machine learning lifecycle, ensuring high availability and low latency for critical services, and continuously improving workflows and platform capabilities. You will also lead efforts to define solutions for ambiguous problems and set technical standards within the team.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Moonpay as an employer.
What you need
- Real-time serving experience with high-availability services under strict latency budgets
- Systems thinking with a holistic view of architecture and failure management
- Strong engineering craft with a focus on maintainable and reliable code
- Experience owning feature or data pipelines end-to-end
- Ability to turn vague problems into actionable work and influence peers
Nice to have
- Experience with decision explainability systems
- Background in anomaly detection and identifying suspicious behavior
- Familiarity with GCP, BigQuery, Bigtable, Memorystore, Vertex AI, and Kubernetes
What you get
- Competitive salary package
- Equity package for all employees
- Pay-for-performance equity bonus
- Moonshot award for exceptional impact
- Pension with employer contributions from day one
- Employee referral program with rewards
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- High expectations and fast-paced environment
- Focus on real-time decisioning in a critical domain
- Ambiguity in problem-solving is a key part of the role
Summarised from Moonpay's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Moonpay on their lever job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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