Engineering Manager, Compliance

🔹 Role Overview

• Position: Engineering Manager, Compliance
• Location: Remote (United States)
• Employment: Full-time
• Salary Range: $218,025 – $256,500 USD + bonus + equity + benefits
• Team: Agent Productivity Tools (APT), part of the Enterprise Applications & Architecture org

🔹 Mission

Lead engineering efforts to build secure, scalable compliance and customer experience tools that streamline Coinbase’s service and support the company’s broader goals of security, cost-efficiency, and onboarding a billion users onchain.

🔹 What You’ll Do

• Lead and grow a team of engineers building compliance-focused CX platforms and tools.
• Balance product vision with customer support, compliance, and technology needs.
• Evaluate and integrate third-party vendor tools; drive build-vs-buy decisions.
• Coach and mentor engineers to grow technically and professionally.
• Collaborate across departments (engineering, design, product, CX) to break down complex work into actionable roadmaps.
• Oversee architectural decisions and engineering quality standards.
• Own and evolve engineering processes that improve SLAs and system reliability.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Translate technical challenges for non-technical partners, making issues accessible and decisions transparent.

🔹 What Coinbase Looks For

• Experience:
• 8+ years in software engineering
• 2+ years in engineering management
• Proven experience with distributed systems and high-scale production environments
• Technical skills:
• Proficient in Ruby or Go
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, BuildKite)
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases, gRPC, GraphQL, Kafka, message queues
• Experience building foundational infrastructure libraries (e.g., rate limiters, observability, client libraries)
• Leadership skills:
• Able to thrive in ambiguity, with strong execution and decision-making ability
• Comfortable leading teams in fast-paced, high-growth environments
• Strong communication and collaboration across diverse teams
• Mindset:
• Strong agile mindset, mission-driven, and committed to inclusion
• Balance of short-term execution with long-term planning

🔹 Nice to Haves

• Experience in a hyper-growth startup or fintech
• Offshore team management experience
• Deep passion for compliance, agent productivity tools, and crypto adoption