Senior Associate Compliance Technology (Compliance Automation)

We're hiring an Analytics Engineer to join the Compliance Technology team within the Platform organization. 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.

What you'll do:

• 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.
• Execute measurement frameworks for compliance control effectiveness including coverage timeliness stability and outcome-based metrics and build repeatable reporting pipelines consumable by Compliance leaders operations teams and auditors.

Required skills and experience:

• 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.
• Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines and data models using tools such as dbt Airflow or equivalent orchestration/transformation frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to execute on ambiguous cross-functional projects in regulated environments with clear written and verbal communication.
• Python skills applied to automation pipeline development and data analysis.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency cost and quality.

How does Coinbase ensure its pay and bonus plans are competitive?

What We Do

Crypto creates economic freedom by ensuring that people can participate fairly in the economy and Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people. We’re updating the century-old financial system by providing a trusted platform that makes it easy for people and institutions to engage with crypto assets including trading staking safekeeping spending and fast free global transfers. We also provide critical infrastructure for onchain activity and support builders who share our vision that onchain is the new online. And together with the crypto community we advocate for responsible rules to make the benefits of crypto available around the world.

Why Work With Us

We have the opportunity to accelerate the pace of innovation in the world by building an open financial system. Our vision is to create more economic freedom in the world to help people control their own wealth start companies have financial privacy and participate in the global economy. And to get us there we focus build and move as a team.

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