Staff Analytics Engineer, Compliance Data

As a Staff Analytics Engineer on the Compliance Data team at Coinbase, you lead the data foundations for the Compliance Reporting Data Platform, the canonical source of truth for user, transaction, and compliance data across the organization. Every regulatory report at Coinbase depends on your systems, and you define the technical direction for how compliance data is modeled, validated, and certified at scale as products, entities, and regulatory requirements evolve.

What you'll do

• Own the systems, architecture, technical strategy, and roadmap for Compliance Data, including the data models, pipelines, quality frameworks, and certification processes that the entire compliance reporting stack depends on.
• Build production-grade solutions 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.

What you bring

• 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 such as dbt, Airflow, or equivalent.
• A 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 such as Snowflake or Databricks.
• Proven ability to lead under regulatory pressure, including delivering accurate data for exams, audits, or filings where errors have material consequences.
• A 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.
• Ability to utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $207,485-$244,100 USD, depending on location, plus equity and bonus eligibility.
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
• Remote-first work with quarterly in-person working sessions called surges.

About Coinbase

Coinbase is building the future of finance with a mission to increase economic freedom. The company operates a remote-first structure and brings teams together quarterly for intensive in-person working sessions.