Join Coinbase as a Senior Associate in Broker Dealer Operations to manage complex workflows in the U.S. equities brokerage business.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 5 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Own recurring broker-dealer operations workflows
- Perform daily order, trade, position, balance, and cash reconciliations
- Manage complex exceptions and time-sensitive incidents
- Build and maintain audit-ready documentation
- Identify systemic failure modes and lead process-improvement initiatives
Must have
- 5+ years in financial services operations
- Direct experience in the U.S. equities trade lifecycle
- Proven ability to independently manage complex operational issues
- Track record of authoring or materially improving SOPs
- Hands-on experience with clearing firm or broker-dealer systems
Nice to have
- Experience partnering with Engineering and Product
- Working proficiency in SQL, Jira, and data-quality or workflow-automation tooling
AI in the day-to-day
Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Associate for Broker Dealer Operations at Coinbase, the individual will oversee complex operational workflows related to the U.S. equities brokerage business, ensuring accuracy in customer accounts, trades, and regulatory reporting. Key skills include extensive experience in financial services operations, particularly in trade lifecycle management, along with proficiency in SQL and operational tooling. This position is suited for professionals with over five years of relevant experience who can independently navigate and resolve intricate operational challenges. Coinbase's remote-first model emphasizes collaboration through quarterly in-person sessions.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze October 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Coinbase's careers page October 5, 2026.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for comparable tech roles (median ~$126,887).
- Starts above 36% of 94 comparable senior other roles in United States that list SQL we track (median $144,350 across 36 companies). See SQL salary trends
- SQL appears in 5.9% of 2432 comparable senior other roles in United States; Jira appears in 0.3% of 2432 comparable senior other roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Broker Dealer Operations, Senior Associate role remote?
- Yes — Coinbase lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Coinbase lists $130,900–$154,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Broker Dealer Operations, Senior Associate role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Apex Ascend, Apex Clearing, Jira, SQL.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coinbase targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Broker Dealer Operations, Senior Associate role at Coinbase.
From the original posting
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
As a Senior Associate, Broker Dealer Operations, you'll join the Coinbase Capital Markets (CCM) team and serve as a subject-matter expert within the operational engine supporting Coinbase's U.S. equities brokerage business. This team keeps customer accounts, trades, cash, positions, transfers, corporate actions, and regulatory reporting accurate, controlled, and scalable. You'll independently manage complex operational workflows, strengthen controls, and partner with Apex and internal teams to turn recurring manual work into reliable processes and tooling.
What you'll do:
- Own recurring broker-dealer operations workflows across one or more areas, including reconciliations, corporate actions, securities transfers, account maintenance, error processing, and regulatory reporting support.
- Perform daily order, trade, position, balance, and cash reconciliations between Coinbase and Apex records, investigating breaks, documenting root causes, and driving resolution to closure.
- Manage complex exceptions and time-sensitive incidents by coordinating remediation across Apex, Engineering, Product, Trading, CX, Compliance, Finance, Legal, and Risk, prioritizing by customer, financial, and regulatory impact.
- Build and maintain audit-ready documentation, including SOPs, runbooks, control checklists, and process maps, translating operational lessons into durable controls.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to define operational requirements, test new functionality, validate launch readiness, and improve tooling, dashboards, and automation.
- Identify systemic failure modes and lead process-improvement initiatives that reduce manual work, improve detection and recovery speed, and strengthen operational resilience.
Required skills and experience:
- 5+ years in financial services operations, broker-dealer operations, clearing and settlement, trade support, or a related operational control function, with direct experience in the U.S. equities trade lifecycle (order processing, settlement, positions, cash movements, corporate actions, securities transfers).
- Proven ability to independently manage complex operational issues across multiple systems, driving investigation, escalation, remediation, and closure without relying on existing runbooks for every scenario.
- Track record of authoring or materially improving SOPs, runbooks, controls documentation, or audit-support materials in a regulated environment.
- Hands-on experience with clearing firm or broker-dealer systems (Apex Clearing, Apex Ascend, or equivalent), plus working proficiency in SQL, Jira, and data-quality or workflow-automation tooling.
- Experience partnering with Engineering and Product to convert operational requirements into tooling, alerts, dashboards, or automated workflows.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Position ID: P78293
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