Senior Compliance Technology Leader — Data & Controls

Risk Hub; United States; Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 271,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a senior technical leader to own compliance data systems, partnering across Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Operations. You will drive architecture decisions, build scalable data pipelines, and lead cross-functional initiatives to ensure detection capabilities meet regulatory requirements and business needs.

You will mentor analytics teams, define multi-year roadmaps, and translate regulatory needs into testable, auditable controls while controlling operational costs.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience developing data-intensive systems with leadership in compliance data and control systems.
• Deep expertise in compliance data systems and ability to shape architectural decisions.
• Proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives from problem definition to production.
• Experience building reliable data pipelines, data models, and multi-tenant compliance controls at scale.
• Ability to influence stakeholders without formal authority across Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Operations.
• Strong judgment balancing regulatory needs with system reliability and user experience.
• Hands-on skills in implementation, code/design reviews, production troubleshooting, and incident leadership.
• Excellent communication to explain complex technical and compliance issues to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Judgment in using AI tools while protecting sensitive data.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for compliance data systems and large-scale solutions across global requirements.
• Define multi-year roadmaps and translate priorities into quarterly outcomes.
• Frame ambiguous problems, evaluate options, and balance control, data quality, customer experience and cost.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives across Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Operations.
• Serve as a technical expert shaping architecture and driving engineering quality.
• Translate regulatory requirements into testable controls with traceable data and evidence.
• Own operational health including monitoring, incident response, and remediation.
• Analyze detection outputs and improve signal quality while maintaining detection sensitivity.
• Partner with ML/AI and Platform teams to enhance capabilities with ongoing monitoring.
• Mentor analytics and data practitioners through guidance and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Data-intensive systems

Compliance data

Technical leadership

Architectural decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

Production troubleshooting

Incident leadership

Data quality

Communication skills

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a senior technical leader to own compliance data systems, partnering across Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Operations. You will drive architecture decisions, build scalable data pipelines, and lead cross-functional initiatives to ensure detection capabilities meet regulatory requirements and business needs.

You will mentor analytics teams, define multi-year roadmaps, and translate regulatory needs into testable, auditable controls while controlling operational costs.