Join Coinbase as a Senior Investigator to lead complex financial crime investigations in a remote-first environment.
Posted by employer 3 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 11 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Own end-to-end investigations into complex AML/CFT matters
- Conduct delegated MLRO reviews of Suspicious Transaction Reports
- Lead proactive investigations using transaction data
- Develop actionable intelligence from casework and analytics
- Partner with law enforcement agencies on suspicious activity reporting
Must have
- 4+ years conducting and reviewing complex crypto financial crime investigations
- Experience preparing, reviewing and filing SARs/STRs
- Demonstrated ability to perform data-driven investigations using SQL
- Strong investigative judgement and ability to produce clear reports
- Experience identifying financial crime typologies
Practical constraints
- Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period
AI in the day-to-day
Utilises generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.
Requirements
- Experience
- 4+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In the role of Compliance, International Investigations Associate at Coinbase, the individual will manage complex investigations into financial crime, ensuring thorough case development and regulatory compliance. Key skills include expertise in AML/CFT regulations, proficiency in SQL and blockchain analytics, and the ability to produce detailed reports. This position is suited for experienced professionals with a strong background in crypto financial crime investigations, particularly those who can translate findings into actionable intelligence. The team operates in a high-pressure environment, emphasizing collaboration across various compliance and operational functions.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze September 26, 2026. Last confirmed on Coinbase's careers page September 27, 2026.
- Starts above 23% of 22 comparable senior other roles in United Kingdom we track (median $105,417 across 7 companies).
- SQL appears in 3.3% of 120 comparable senior other roles in United Kingdom.
Quick facts
- Is the Compliance, International Investigations Associate role remote?
- Yes — Coinbase lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Coinbase lists £55,620–£61,800 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 4 years of relevant experience for this Compliance, International Investigations Associate role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: SQL, blockchain analytics.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coinbase targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Compliance, International Investigations 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 Investigator in Coinbase’s Financial Intelligence Unit within Compliance (2LoD), you’ll help drive Coinbase’s financial crime investigations capability across multiple jurisdictions. This team leads complex reactive and proactive investigations, develops intelligence on emerging typologies and risk patterns, and translates investigative insights into high-quality SAR/STR decisions, escalations and programme improvements. You’ll work on high-impact matters across Coinbase’s global platform, partnering closely with MLROs, local compliance teams, operations teams and cross functional stakeholders to protect Coinbase and its customers from financial crime.
What you’ll do:
- Own end-to-end investigations into complex AML/CFT matters, from alert review or referral, through case development, disposition and SAR/STR submission to relevant FIUs.
- Conduct delegated MLRO reviews of Suspicious Transaction Reports and Suspicious Activity Reports prior to filing, ensuring accuracy, quality and regulatory defensibility.
- Lead proactive investigations, using transaction data, on-chain activity, trading behaviour and cross functional intelligence and OSINT to identify emerging typologies, threat patterns and high-risk activity.
- Develop actionable intelligence from casework and analytics to inform escalations, regulatory reporting, control enhancements and improvements to detection and investigation workflows.
- Partner internally with Country MLROs, local compliance teams, operations teams and other stakeholders on high-risk matters, information sharing and investigation strategy.
- Partner with law enforcement agencies and external stakeholders on suspicious activity reporting, information requests, and intelligence sharing.
- Support investigation quality through case review, structured feedback and contributions to policies, procedures, training and programme maturity.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 4+ years conducting and reviewing complex crypto financial crime investigations including experience across a range of products such as retail and institutional transfers, spot trading and derivatives.
- Experience preparing, reviewing and filing SARs/STRs with strong understanding of multi-jurisdiction AML/CTF regulatory obligations and reporting expectations.
- Demonstrated ability to perform data-driven investigations using SQL, blockchain analytics tools and other research techniques to extract investigative insights, identify suspicious behaviour and develop defensible conclusions.
- Strong investigative judgement and the ability to produce clear, structured long-form reports tailored to technical, compliance, leadership, and cross-functional audiences.
- Experience identifying financial crime typologies, contributing to proactive investigations and turning investigative findings into programme or control improvements.
- Utilises generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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