Engineering Manager, Compliance

Coinbase Engineering Manager Opportunity

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you're capable of? At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It's a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system. To achieve our mission, we're seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company's hardest problems. Our work culture is intense and isn't for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there's no better place to be. While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

The Agent Productivity Tools (APT) organization is a vital part of Coinbase's Enterprise Applications and Architecture org. Our mission is to build a unified and secure compliance platform that leverages cutting edge technology supplemented by human expertise to proactively surface, investigate, and prevent illicit financial activities, enhancing agent productivity, reducing user friction, and supporting the Coinbase goal of bringing a billion users on chain.

The APT organization is responsible for building the customer experience platforms that streamline the customer service and compliance processes with innovative services, tools and applications that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of CX agents.

Role: We would like to add an Engineering Manager to help extend our platform at Coinbase in supporting Coinbase's goals of improving security, compliance, and cost. You will be joining an agile and tight-knit team that is focused on delivering value. We are seeking individuals who thrive in a continuous learning and high level of ownership environment.

What you'll be doing:

• Wear multiple hats of customer experience, CX agent experience and technology leader to deliver secure, scalable and efficient compliance tools.
• Collaborate with third-party vendors to evaluate innovative solutions, driving build-vs-buy decisions that enable Coinbase to iterate quickly and leverage industry innovation.
• Build and manage an engineering team and guide the development of essential product features and underlying infrastructure.
• Coach your direct reports to have a positive impact on the organization and chart a fulfilling career path.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, cross-org stakeholders and senior leadership to turn our vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to break down complex projects into smaller pieces and iterate on their design and implementation.
• Be a thoughtful technical voice and support your team in making diligent architectural decisions.
• Work with our talent organization to source and hire amazing engineers who will expand the Coinbase culture and product.
• Contribute to owning and delivering processes that drive engineering quality and meet our engineering SLAs.
• Create an environment where innovative ideas are regularly generated, vetted, and transformed into action.
• Foresee potential issues before they arise and adapt their own approach, working within constraints to avoid adverse impact.
• Communicate across the company to technical and non-technical leaders with ease via weekly and monthly program updates.
• Quickly distill complex technical themes so that an entry level, non-tech team member can understand them.

What we look for in you:

• At least 8 years of experience in software engineering.
• At least 2 years of engineering management experience.
• You know what high quality code — and software engineering processes — look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them.
• Execution focused with an ability to navigate ambiguity.
• Ability to do both long term thinking and short term planning.
• Experience creating, delivering, and operating multi-tenanted, distributed systems at scale.
• Passion for human interface tools, ensuring they are efficient, effective, and enhance overall user experience.
• Passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together.
• Strong agile mindset, able to orchestrate technical resources in a resource challenged environment.
• Proven ability to build order out of chaos, with minimal guidance.
• Create and maintain foundational infrastructure libraries utilized by every engineering team in production (e.g., Coinbase Server Framework (CSF), rate limiters, memcached / MongoDB clients, circuit breakers, observability integration, etc.)
• Experience in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CircleCI, BuildKite or similar.
• Experience in any two of SQL/NoSQL DBs, gRPC, GraphQL, Kafka, MQ.
• Proficiency in Ruby or Golang.

Nice to haves:

• Have previous experience at a fast paced, high growth stage internet/software company.
• Embodies our values: positive energy, continuous learning, clear communication, efficient execution, and commitment to building an inclusive environment.
• Offshore resource management experience.

Job #: P67634