Staff Analytics Engineer

Overview

Staff Analytics Engineer on the Finance Analytics team, setting technical direction for Coinbase's financial data layer and working side by side with Accounting, Controllership and FP&A.

What you'll do

• Partner with Accounting and FP&A to support month-end and quarter-end close, building the datasets, reconciliations and reporting that let us close the books accurately and on time.
• Make financial data and pipelines audit-ready: SOX-compliant controls, lineage, change management and evidence for internal and external auditors.
• Design and own the architecture of curated, well-documented source-of-truth financial datasets in Snowflake/Databricks that are correct, consistent and tie out to the general ledger.
• Build and own scalable batch (and where needed, near-real-time) pipelines orchestrated with Airflow/dbt, including dependency management, backfills and runbooks.
• Define reusable data quality and reconciliation frameworks (tests, monitoring, alerting, SLAs) and agree with Accounting on what "done" means for financial correctness.
• Drive data contracts with upstream engineering teams, mentor Analytics Engineers, and build abstractions (Python packages, UDFs, LLM-assisted tools) that make finance data users more efficient.

What you'll need

• Accounting exposure, either formal (accounting/finance degree or coursework, CPA/CMA) or hands-on work with Accounting/FP&A teams, such as supporting month-end close, reconciliations or financial reporting.
• Expert SQL (window functions, complex aggregations, optimization) and strong Python (OOP, reusable frameworks).
• No production ETL or SQL experience = reject.
• Deep data modeling: designed modular, reusable source-of-truth models (star/snowflake schemas, SCDs) used by many teams.
• Built and owned production ETL/ELT pipelines with dbt, Airflow or similar, including testing, monitoring and SLAs.
• Modern data warehouse/lakehouse experience (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift). Snowflake is not required; no comparable warehouse experience = reject.
• Staff-level scope: led multi-quarter, cross-team technical initiatives, set architecture/direction, mentored engineers.

Details

• Remote-first, but not remote-only; expect to get together quarterly for in-person working sessions called "surges".
• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $207,485 — $244,100 USD.
• Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).