Remote-First Analytics Engineer — Compliance Technology

Coinbase; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 167,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring an Analytics Engineer for the Compliance Technology team within the Platform organization. You will build and own end-to-end data pipelines powering compliance detection and decisioning, improving signal quality, and creating scalable tooling for trustworthy data.

You will partner with Compliance, Product, and Engineering to ensure monitoring, controls, and auditability across transaction monitoring, EDD/KYC, and screening systems, while driving data quality and measurable

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Python

Data modeling

ETL/ELT pipelines

Cross-functional collaboration

Generative AI usage

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Job description

Coinbase is hiring an Analytics Engineer for the Compliance Technology team within the Platform organization. You will build and own end-to-end data pipelines powering compliance detection and decisioning, improving signal quality, and creating scalable tooling for trustworthy data.

You will partner with Compliance, Product, and Engineering to ensure monitoring, controls, and auditability across transaction monitoring, EDD/KYC, and screening systems, while driving data quality and measurable