The opportunity
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
What you'll do
Embed with Compliance leadership and frontline teams to surface the: automation opportunities with the greatest business leverage — developing ground-level understanding of workflows like transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory change management, and exam preparation.
Prototype quickly and pragmatically using Coinbase's existing AI platform as: the default foundation before recommending net-new builds.
Own the Compliance automation roadmap in partnership with the Chief: Compliance Officer and Compliance leadership, translating complex regulatory workflows — case resolution, trade surveillance, risk assessment, policy management — into engineering requirements and engineering constraints back to stakeholders clearly.
Define the build-vs-buy strategy for Compliance tooling, evaluating what: Coinbase should build internally, adopt from partner teams, procure from vendors, or retire.
Ensure every automated compliance output is traceable, reviewable, and: defensible to regulators — with auditability, approval gates, evidence retention, and human-in-the-loop controls as first-class design concerns, not afterthoughts.
Drive adoption through brown-bags, prototype walkthroughs, and feedback loops: that bring Compliance teams along on the journey and ensure tools actually get used.
What they're looking for
- + years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated ability to: ship production systems in ambiguous, stakeholder-heavy environments, with greenfield experience a strong plus.
- Hands-on experience deploying LLM-based applications, including prompt: engineering, evaluation frameworks, hallucination guardrails, and human-in-the-loop design for high-stakes compliance outputs.
- Proven ability to embed with non-technical domain experts, rapidly: internalize complex workflows, and translate them into engineering requirements.
- Familiarity with compliance and regulatory systems concepts: transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory filing workflows, case management, and audit-ready data handling.