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
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. Build alignment on technical approaches, resolve competing priorities, and drive delivery across teams without relying on reporting-line authority.
Serve as a technical expert whose judgment shapes critical architectural: decisions across your team and cross-functional partners. Raise engineering quality through hands-on development, design reviews, technical documentation, and reusable approaches.
Partner with Compliance and control owners to translate regulatory and policy: requirements into testable technical controls, with clear acceptance criteria, traceable data, and evidence of control effectiveness.
What they're looking for
- Own the operational health of systems within your domain, including: monitoring, incident response, and remediation. Detect data-quality issues and control degradation, and drive improvements that reduce recurrence.
- Analyze detection outputs and control-performance trends to improve signal: quality and operational efficiency, reducing non-actionable noise while validating that changes preserve detection sensitivity.
- Partner with Machine Learning/AI and Platform teams to improve compliance: capabilities, with clear evaluation criteria and ongoing monitoring of production performance.
- Mentor analytics and data practitioners through technical guidance, reviews,: and knowledge sharing, reinforcing Coinbase’s cultural values.
