Remote-First Analytics Engineer, Compliance Tech

Socket.dev; United States; On-site; USD 167,280 - 196,800; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring an Analytics Engineer to join the Compliance Technology team within the Platform organization. This role builds end-to-end data pipelines powering compliance detection and decisioning, ensuring monitoring, auditability, and trustworthy data for regulators and partners.

You will own data models and datasets across multiple compliance domains, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive measurable improvements in signal quality, coverage, and timeliness.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of analytics engineering, data engineering, or data-heavy roles.
• Advanced SQL with complex transformations and data quality checks.
• Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines and data models using dbt, Airflow, or equivalents.
• Ability to execute on ambiguous, cross-functional projects in regulated environments with clear written and verbal communication.
• Python for automation, pipeline development, and data analysis.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements.

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

Data modeling

Data pipelines

Data quality checks

Cross-functional collaboration

Generative AI usage

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Job description

Coinbase is hiring an Analytics Engineer to join the Compliance Technology team within the Platform organization. This role builds end-to-end data pipelines powering compliance detection and decisioning, ensuring monitoring, auditability, and trustworthy data for regulators and partners.

You will own data models and datasets across multiple compliance domains, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive measurable improvements in signal quality, coverage, and timeliness.