Staff Analytics Engineer

Posted 20hrs ago

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Staff Analytics Engineer building Coinbase’s auditable financial data foundations. Designing pipelines, reconciliation frameworks, and source-of-truth datasets for Finance and Accounting.

Responsibilities:

  • Set the technical direction for Coinbase’s financial data layer
  • Partner with Accounting and FP&A on month-end and quarter-end close
  • Build datasets, reconciliations, and reporting for accurate and timely financial close
  • Make financial data and pipelines audit-ready through SOX-compliant controls, lineage, change management, and audit evidence
  • Design and own curated, documented source-of-truth financial datasets in Snowflake/Databricks
  • Build and own scalable batch and near-real-time pipelines using Airflow/dbt
  • Manage dependencies, backfills, and runbooks
  • Define data quality and reconciliation frameworks, including tests, monitoring, alerting, and SLAs
  • Establish data contracts with upstream engineering teams
  • Mentor Analytics Engineers
  • Build Python packages, UDFs, and LLM-assisted tools for finance data users

Requirements:

  • Accounting exposure through an accounting/finance degree or coursework, CPA/CMA, or hands-on work with Accounting/FP&A teams
  • Expert SQL, including window functions, complex aggregations, and optimization
  • Strong Python, including object-oriented programming and reusable frameworks
  • No production ETL or SQL experience
  • Deep data modeling experience, including star/snowflake schemas and slowly changing dimensions (SCDs)
  • Experience building and owning production ETL/ELT pipelines with dbt, Airflow, or similar, including testing, monitoring, and SLAs
  • Modern data warehouse/lakehouse experience with Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, or comparable technology
  • Staff-level experience leading multi-quarter, cross-team technical initiatives, setting architecture/direction, and mentoring engineers

Benefits:

  • Equity eligibility
  • Bonus eligibility
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Quarterly in-person working sessions (“surges”)
  • Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities
  • Remote-first work arrangement