Coinbase: Embedded Engineer, Compliance [Office of the CTO] — Remote - USA

About Coinbase

Coinbase works on digital-asset and financial technology, with its recruitment material discussing an open financial system and crypto-related markets. Its advertised business activities connect consumer and business products with engineering, financial operations and regulated-market development. The company describes local product initiatives alongside the compliance, policy and operational work needed to support them. This gives the business both a technology dimension and a financial-services context, with product delivery linked to the requirements of the markets in which it operates.

The position and its setting

Coinbase lists Embedded Engineer, Compliance [Office of the CTO] in Remote - USA, under reference 8099099. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Engineering - Backend
• Employer listing date: 1 August 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• 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
• Define the build-vs-buy strategy for Compliance tooling, evaluating what Coinbase should build internally, adopt from partner teams, procure from vendors, or retire
• Quality / delivery: 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

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated ability to ship production systems in ambiguous, stakeholder-heavy environments, with greenfield experience a 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
• Ability to embed with non-technical domain experts, rapidly internalize complex workflows, and translate them into engineering requirements
• Familiarity: compliance and regulatory systems concepts: transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, regulatory filing workflows, case management, and audit-ready data handling
• Familiarity: multi-agent orchestration concepts including how agent systems handle handoffs, escalation, and auditability
• Experience: 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))

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• $218,025 — $256,500 USD
• Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period
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• Accommodations: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at accommodations[at]coinbase.com
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Location, schedule and contract conditions

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• Work arrangement: Remote
• Advertised location: Remote - USA

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Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Coinbase

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Practical preparation: AI

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Relevant skills

• AI/ML
• LLMs
• AI
• embedded systems
• audit
• compliance
• stakeholder management
• partnership development
• security operations