Coinbase

Coinbase

Senior Analyst, Compliance Technology

Remote - USA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$167k-$197kDetected 16 hours ago
PythonData StructuresSQLAirflowdbtData EngineeringLLMs

About the role

  • Ready to do the most impactful work of your career?
  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain curated datasets and data models (e.g., case, alert, entity, transaction, and risk features) that power compliance controls across Transaction Monitoring, EDD/KYC, and Screening systems.
  • Own data quality for compliance datasets by implementing validation checks, monitoring, lineage tracking, and documentation to ensure outputs are accurate, complete, and audit-ready.
  • Partner with cross-functional engineering teams and Compliance stakeholders to close upstream data gaps, standardize instrumentation, and translate control requirements into scalable data structures and feature sets.
  • Drive detection signal quality improvements by analyzing detection outputs, identifying opportunities to reduce non-actionable noise while protecting sensitivity, and defining success metrics for controlled rollouts.
  • Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines and data models using tools such as dbt, Airflow, or equivalent orchestration/transformation frameworks.
  • Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
  • If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here.
  • This team builds and operates data and detection capabilities that enable Coinbase to meet global BSA/AML and related regulatory obligations at scale, partnering with Compliance, Product, and Engineering to ensure monitoring and investigative controls are effective, measurable, and auditable.
  • You'll build and own end-to-end data pipelines that power compliance detection and decisioning, improving signal quality, defining control performance measurement, and creating scalable tooling that makes compliance data easier to trust and use.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated ability to execute on ambiguous, cross-functional projects in regulated environments with clear written and verbal communication.
  • Required skills and experience:

Skills

  • Minimum 5 years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or data-heavy technical roles.
  • Advanced SQL proficiency including complex transformations, performance tuning, and data quality checks.
  • Python skills applied to automation, pipeline development, and data analysis.

Compensation

  • $167,280 - $196,800 USD
  • Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below).
  • Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
  • Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

Benefits

  • Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Company info

  • At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
  • We're hiring an Analytics Engineer to join the Compliance Technology team within the Platform organization.

Equal opportunity

  • 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.
  • 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.
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