Analytics Engineer, Compliance Tech (Remote-First)

Coinbase, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 167,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring an Analytics Engineer to join the Compliance Technology team within the Platform organization. You will build end-to-end data pipelines powering compliance detection and decisioning, partnering with Compliance, Product, and Engineering to ensure monitors are effective and auditable.

You will own datasets and models for Transaction Monitoring, EDD/KYC, and Screening, improve signal quality, and deliver repeatable reporting for Compliance leadership and auditors.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of analytics 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 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.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain curated datasets and data models powering 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.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Python

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data modeling

Data quality checks

Generative AI usage

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring an Analytics Engineer to join the Compliance Technology team within the Platform organization. You will build end-to-end data pipelines powering compliance detection and decisioning, partnering with Compliance, Product, and Engineering to ensure monitors are effective and auditable.

You will own datasets and models for Transaction Monitoring, EDD/KYC, and Screening, improve signal quality, and deliver repeatable reporting for Compliance leadership and auditors.