Engineering Manager, Compliance Technology (Platform)

Details

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. The Compliance Technology Team develops globally scalable systems to meet regulatory requirements, including transaction monitoring, sanctions and various screening systems, customer risk scoring, and other compliance solutions that ensure regulatory adherence while maintaining a seamless customer experience. This role is remote-first but not remote-only; in-person participation is required throughout the year for team and company offsites. Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage engineering teams in the Compliance domain to guide the development of features, services, and infrastructure.
• Plan, design, develop, and test software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products, including cloud-based or internet-related tools.
• Design scalable systems to solve novel problems using modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to turn product and technical vision into a tangible quarterly roadmap.
• Collaborate and integrate services with Retail and Institutional product teams to drive customer benefits while maintaining a world-class Compliance program.
• Debug difficult technical problems and improve systems for easier deployment, operation, and diagnosis.
• Review feature designs within your product area and across the company for cross-cutting projects, owning security, safety, scale, operational integrity, and architectural clarity.
• Build pipelines to integrate with third-party vendors and design event-driven system architecture.
• Lead multiple engineering-focused efforts in parallel while maintaining high service quality standards.
• Create and enforce processes to improve engineering quality, AI adoption, and high-impact delivery for each team member.
• Maintain a high bar for recruiting engineering talent and continuously raise engineering skill levels within the team.
• Contribute to and take ownership of processes that drive engineering quality and meet engineering SLAs.
• Be a thoughtful technical voice in the team; participate in on-call rotations, lead incidents, and triage/troubleshoot production issues.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering.
• At least 2 years of engineering management experience.
• Ability to be hands-on when needed — writing/reviewing code or technical documents, participating in on-call rotations and leading incidents, or triaging/troubleshooting bugs.
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services, with knowledge of service-oriented architecture.
• Experience working with backend systems utilizing Golang, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, MongoDB, and DynamoDB.
• Familiarity with product and design lifecycles and close collaboration with designers, engineers, and product managers.
• Ability to write high-quality, well-tested code to meet customer needs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices.
• Passion for building an open financial system.

Nice to haves

• Experience building compliance systems.
• Exposure to financial crimes compliance systems (transaction monitoring systems, enhanced due diligence, screening systems).

Pay & Benefits

• Pay Range: $217,900—$217,900 CAD (target annual salary). Full-time offers also include bonus eligibility, equity eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision).
• Benefits include extended health care, dental, vision, virtual health care (Consult+), life & accident insurance, disability coverage, ESPP, wellness stipend, mobile/internet reimbursement, connections stipend, learning & development allowance, employee assistance program, travel medical policy, fertility benefits, generous time off/leave policy.

Other details

• Job #: GPEM06US-PF
• #LI-Remote
• Coinbase is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Global data privacy notices and additional applicant information are provided in the original posting.