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
Investigate alerts generated by surveillance systems on a daily, weekly, and: monthly cadence, analyzing trading patterns to identify potential violations including spoofing, wash trading, and other manipulative activity, and escalating findings as needed.
Execute market assessments for new asset launches and relaunches following: trading halts, evaluating market depth, liquidity, and trading behavior relative to other assets and exchanges.
Strengthen Coinbase's Trading Rules and surveillance policies by identifying: gaps, recommending enhancements, and partnering with engineering and support staff to build process efficiencies and system improvements.
Collaborate with compliance colleagues across Coinbase business lines on: investigations, regulatory requests, and inquiries, ensuring thorough documentation and timely resolution.
Monitor regulatory and market structure developments that may affect: Coinbase's markets, proactively advising the team on changes that impact the scope or approach of the surveillance program.
+ years of relevant experience in market surveillance, trade monitoring, or a: trading capacity at a regulated entity (exchange, broker-dealer, or comparable).
What they're looking for
- Working knowledge of applicable securities, commodities, or digital asset: laws, regulations, and market structure, with the ability to apply them to surveillance scenarios.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze trading data, identify patterns of potential: market manipulation, and document findings in clear, well-organized investigative reports and memoranda.
- Experience with surveillance technologies and data tools, with the ability to: develop and implement monitoring reports and leverage data (e.g., SQL) to support investigations.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver: business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
