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Lead architecture, systems, and roadmap for Coinbase's Compliance Reporting Data Platform. Design and build production-grade data models, pipelines, quality frameworks, validations, and certification processes. Establish data contracts, monitoring, reconciliation, and audit-ready processes. Partner with engineering and compliance stakeholders, respond to regulatory exams, and mentor engineers while shaping standards and documentation.
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We're hiring a Staff Analytics Engineer to lead the data foundations for the Compliance Data team within the Platform organization. This team owns the Compliance Reporting Data Platform, Coinbase's canonical source of truth for user, transaction, and compliance data, and every regulatory report at Coinbase depends on it. You'll define the technical direction for how compliance data is modeled, validated, and certified at scale, ensuring our foundations hold as products, entities, and regulatory requirements evolve, while also delivering accurate, timely data when regulators come calling.
What you'll do:
- Own the systems, architecture, technical strategy, and roadmap for the Compliance Data, including the data models, pipelines, quality frameworks, and certification processes that the entire compliance reporting stack depends on.
- Build production-grade solutions, in addition to data models and pipelines, covering user, transaction, and compliance data across retail and institutional product lines, designing for durability, auditability, and consumption by both analysts and AI agents.
- Drive data quality at the source by establishing data contracts, validation frameworks, monitoring, and reconciliation logic that catch issues before they propagate to downstream reports or regulatory filings.
- Partner with upstream engineering teams, Compliance leadership, and downstream consumers to close data gaps, absorb product changes proactively, and define the standards that make compliance data trustworthy and self-serve.
- Lead the team's response to live regulatory exams, audits, and time-sensitive data requests, ensuring accuracy and timeliness under pressure while building repeatable processes that reduce future manual effort.
- Shape engineering standards and technical culture across the Compliance Data team through architectural decisions, code reviews, mentorship, and converting tribal knowledge into durable, documented infrastructure.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 8+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or data-intensive technical roles, with demonstrated technical leadership across teams or domains.
- Expert-level SQL and Python proficiency applied to production pipeline development, complex transformations, data quality automation, and orchestration frameworks (dbt, Airflow, or equivalent).
- Track record of designing and owning systems and canonical or certified data models that serve multiple downstream teams, with deep fluency in dimensional modeling, data contracts, and modern warehouse architecture (Snowflake, Databricks).
- Proven ability to lead under regulatory pressure, including delivering accurate data for exams, audits, or filings where errors have material consequences.
- History of driving technical direction and influencing engineering practices beyond your immediate team, including scoping complex projects, making independent architectural decisions, and mentoring other engineers.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Pay Transparency 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):
$207,485—$244,100 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.
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