Senior Staff, Compliance Technology

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.

The Compliance Technology team builds and operates data and detection capabilities that enable Coinbase to meet global BSA/AML and related regulatory obligations at scale. We partner closely with Compliance, Product, and Engineering to ensure our monitoring and investigative controls are effective, measurable, and auditable.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for compliance data and control systems within your domain, leading the design, implementation, and operation of large-scale solutions that support global compliance requirements.
• Define and deliver multi-year technical roadmaps aligned with regulatory requirements, business growth, and operational scalability, translating long-term priorities into measurable quarterly outcomes.
• Independently frame ambiguous technical problems, evaluate alternatives, and determine approaches that balance control effectiveness, data quality, reliability, customer experience, and operational cost.
• Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives across Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Operations.
• Serve as a technical expert whose judgment shapes critical architectural decisions across your team and cross-functional partners.
• Partner with Compliance and control owners to translate regulatory and policy requirements into testable technical controls.
• Own the operational health of systems within your domain, including monitoring, incident response, and remediation.
• Analyze detection outputs and control-performance trends to improve signal quality and operational efficiency.
• Partner with Machine Learning/AI and Platform teams to improve compliance capabilities.
• Mentor analytics and data practitioners through technical guidance, reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Required Skills & Experience

• At least 10 years of experience developing data-intensive systems, including significant technical leadership in compliance data and control systems.
• Deep expertise in compliance data systems, with a track record of being a trusted technical resource.
• Demonstrated success independently leading complex technical initiatives.
• Experience building reliable data pipelines, data models, and multi-tenant compliance controls or systems at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions and align stakeholders without formal authority.
• Strong technical judgment in balancing regulatory and control requirements with system reliability, customer experience, delivery constraints, and operational efficiency.

Benefits

• Target annual base salary: $230,265-$270,900 USD
• Bonus eligibility
• Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits