Remote-First Staff Analytics Engineer — Compliance Data

Coinbase; Annapolis (MD); Hybrid; USD 207,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Analytics Engineer to lead the data foundations for the Compliance Data team within the Platform organization. You will own data models, pipelines, quality frameworks, and certification processes used for regulatory reporting across retail and institutional product lines.

This role requires 8+ years in analytics/data engineering, expert SQL/Python, and experience with Snowflake/Databricks, under regulatory pressure.

Qualifications

• 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).
• Designing and owning systems and canonical or certified data models for multiple downstream teams with dimensional modeling and data contracts.
• Ability to lead under regulatory pressure delivering accurate data for exams, audits, or filings.
• Influence engineering practices beyond your team; scope complex projects and mentor others.
• Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflows, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own the systems, architecture, technical strategy, and roadmap for the Compliance Data stack.
• Build production-grade data models and pipelines covering user, transaction, and compliance data.
• Establish data contracts, validation, monitoring, and reconciliation to ensure data quality.
• Collaborate with upstream engineering, Compliance leadership, and downstream consumers to close data gaps.
• Lead the team’s response to live regulatory exams, audits, and time-sensitive requests.
• Shape engineering standards and culture through architecture, code reviews, and mentorship.

Skills

Analytics engineering

Data engineering

Technical leadership

SQL

Python

dbt

Airflow

Dimensional modeling

Data contracts

Regulatory experience

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Analytics Engineer to lead the data foundations for the Compliance Data team within the Platform organization. You will own data models, pipelines, quality frameworks, and certification processes used for regulatory reporting across retail and institutional product lines.

This role requires 8+ years in analytics/data engineering, expert SQL/Python, and experience with Snowflake/Databricks, under regulatory pressure.