Staff Analytics Engineer, Compliance Data
Lead the Compliance Data team at Coinbase, shaping data architecture and ensuring regulatory accuracy in a hybrid work environment.
Role intensity
40% coding
AI in the day-to-day
Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.
Requirements
- Experience
- 8+ years
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Staff Analytics Engineer for Compliance Data at Coinbase, the individual will oversee the architecture and technical strategy for the Compliance Reporting Data Platform, ensuring the integrity and accuracy of compliance data. Key skills include advanced proficiency in SQL and Python, along with experience in data modeling and pipeline development using modern tools like dbt and Airflow. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with a strong background in analytics or data engineering, particularly those who thrive under regulatory pressure and have a track record of influencing technical practices across teams.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 17 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Coinbase's career page.
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Quick facts
- Is the Staff Analytics Engineer, Compliance Data role remote?
- It's hybrid — Coinbase expects some on-site time in Remote - USA.
- What's the salary range?
- Coinbase lists $207,485–$244,100 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Staff Analytics Engineer, Compliance Data role.
- Where is the role based?
- Coinbase is hiring for this position in Remote - USA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Airflow, Databricks, Python, SQL, Snowflake, dbt.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coinbase targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Analytics Engineer, Compliance Data 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.
- Own the systems, architecture, technical strategy, and roadmap for the Compliance Data, including the data models, pipelines, quality frameworks, and certification processes that the entire compliance reporting stack depends on.
- Build production-grade solutions, in addition to data models and pipelines, covering user, transaction, and compliance data across retail and institutional product lines, designing for durability, auditability, and consumption by both analysts and AI agents.
- Drive data quality at the source by establishing data contracts, validation frameworks, monitoring, and reconciliation logic that catch issues before they propagate to downstream reports or regulatory filings.
- Partner with upstream engineering teams, Compliance leadership, and downstream consumers to close data gaps, absorb product changes proactively, and define the standards that make compliance data trustworthy and self-serve.
- Lead the team's response to live regulatory exams, audits, and time-sensitive data requests, ensuring accuracy and timeliness under pressure while building repeatable processes that reduce future manual effort.
- Shape engineering standards and technical culture across the Compliance Data team through architectural decisions, code reviews, mentorship, and converting tribal knowledge into durable, documented infrastructure.
- 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).
- Track record of designing and owning systems and canonical or certified data models that serve multiple downstream teams, with deep fluency in dimensional modeling, data contracts, and modern warehouse architecture (Snowflake, Databricks).
- Proven ability to lead under regulatory pressure, including delivering accurate data for exams, audits, or filings where errors have material consequences.
- History of driving technical direction and influencing engineering practices beyond your immediate team, including scoping complex projects, making independent architectural decisions, and mentoring other engineers.
- Utilizes 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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