Forward Deployed Engineer, Compliance [Office of the CTO]
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Software engineer with 5+ years building production systems, plus hands-on LLM application deployment. Must be able to work with compliance stakeholders and understand regulatory workflows like transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, case management, and audit-ready data handling. US remote role.
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Forward Deployed Engineer, Compliance [Office of the CTO]
Remote - USAJob ID#: P77745 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. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase. Coinbase's Compliance organization manages regulatory obligations across products, operations, and growth — spanning transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory change management, and exam readiness across 60+ global entities. This role sits directly inside the Office of the CTO, embedded as a founding engineer within Compliance. You'll identify high-value workflow opportunities, rapidly prototype solutions using Coinbase's existing AI platform, and drive measurable adoption of AI tooling across the Compliance org. You'll be the connective tissue between Compliance stakeholders and the engineering teams who maintain Coinbase's AI platform, acting as advocate, translator, and builder in one. 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.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 5+ 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.
- Familiarity with multi-agent orchestration concepts including how agent systems handle handoffs, escalation, and auditability.
- Experience in a Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or embedded technical advisory capacity, ideally in compliance-tech, RegTech, or financial services environments.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Job ID: #P77745 Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)). Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $218,025—$256,500 USD
Disclosures
- ** Application Limit:** Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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Benefits for U.S. employees
- Medical Plan, Dental and Vision Plan with generous employee contributions
- Health Savings Account with company contributions each pay period
- Disability and Life Insurance
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Wellness Stipend
- Mobile/Internet Reimbursement
- Volunteer Time Off
- Fertility Counseling and Benefits
- Generous Time off/Leave Policy
- The option of getting paid in digital currency
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What you'll do
- Embed with Compliance leadership and frontline teams to surface 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.
- Translate complex regulatory workflows such as case resolution, trade surveillance, risk assessment, and policy management into engineering requirements, and communicate 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.
- Drive adoption through brown-bags, prototype walkthroughs, and feedback loops that bring Compliance teams along and ensure tools get used.
- Utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
What they require
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated ability to ship production systems in ambiguous, stakeholder-heavy environments.
- Greenfield experience is 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.
- Familiarity with multi-agent orchestration concepts including how agent systems handle handoffs, escalation, and auditability.
- Experience in a Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or embedded technical advisory capacity, ideally in compliance-tech, RegTech, or financial services environments.
- Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
- Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called surges.
Benefits
- Medical Plan
- Dental and Vision Plan with generous employee contributions
- Health Savings Account with company contributions each pay period
- Disability and Life Insurance
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Wellness Stipend
- Mobile/Internet Reimbursement
- Volunteer Time Off
- Fertility Counseling and Benefits
- Generous Time off/Leave Policy
- Option of getting paid in digital currency
- Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility
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