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 https://www.coinbase.com/mission 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 CX Analytics Engineering team bridges the gap between data engineering, data science, and business analytics by building scalable, impactful data solutions. We transform raw data into actionable insights through robust pipelines, well-designed data models, and tools that empower stakeholders across the organization to make data-driven decisions. As an Analytics Engineer on our team, you will function as a force multiplier, enabling Analytics and Operations to function seamlessly at scale. You'll have the opportunity to translate complex technical and operational requirements into easily consumable front end data solutions, while also heavily influencing the overarching strategy for CX Analytics and its partners.
Our team combines technical expertise with a deep understanding of the business to unlock the full potential of our data. We prioritize data quality, reliability, and usability, ensuring stakeholders can rely on our data to drive meaningful outcomes.
What We Do
Trusted Data Sources: Develop and maintain foundational data models that serve as the single source of truth for analytics across the organization.
Actionable Insights: Empower stakeholders by translating business requirements into scalable data models, dashboards, and tools.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering, data science, product, and business teams to ensure alignment on priorities and data solutions.
Scalable Data Products: Build frameworks, tools, and workflows that maximize efficiency for data users, while maintaining high standards of data quality and performance.
Outcome-Focused Solutions: Use modern development and analytics tools to deliver value quickly, while ensuring long-term maintainability.
What you'll be doing (ie. job duties):.
Analytics engineer is a hybrid Data Engineer/Data Scientist/Business Analyst role that has the expertise to understand data flows end to end, and the engineering toolkit to extract the most value out of it indirectly (building tables) or directly (solving problems, delivering insights).
Expectations
Examples:
Step into a new line of business and work with Engineering and Product partners to deliver first data pipelines and insights.Communicate with engineering teams to fix data gaps for downstream data users.Take initiative and accountability for fixing issues anywhere in the stack.
Generate business value: Interface with stakeholders on data and product teams to deliver the most commercial value from data (directly or indirectly).
Examples:
Build out a new data model allowing multiple downstream DS teams to more easily unlock business value through experimentation and ad hoc analysis.Combine Eng details of the algo engine with stats and data expertise to come up with feasible solutions for Eng to make the algo better.Work with PMs to tie together new x-PG, and x-Product data into one holistic framework to optimize key financing product business metrics.
Focus on outcomes not tools: Use a variety of frameworks and paradigms to identify the best-fit tools to deliver value.
Examples:
Develop new abstractions (e.g. UDFs, Python packages, dashboards) to support scalable data workflows/infra.Stand up a framework for building data apps internally, enabling other DS teams to quickly add value.Use established tools with mastery (e.g. Google Sheets, SQL) to quickly deliver impact when speed is top priority.*
What We Look For in You*
In addition to out of the box thinking, attention to detail, a sense of urgency and a high degree of autonomy and accountability, we expect you to have the following skills:
Data Modeling Expertise: Strong understanding of best practices for designing modular and reusable data models (e.g., star schemas, snowflake schemas).
Advanced SQL: Proficiency in advanced SQL techniques for data transformation, querying, and optimization.
Intermediate to Advanced Python: Expertise in scripting and automation, with experience in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and building scalable frameworks.
Collaboration and Communication: Strong ability to translate technical concepts into business value for cross-functional stakeholders. Proven ability to manage projects and communicate effectively across teams.
Data Pipeline Development: Experience building, maintaining, and optimizing ETL/ELT pipelines, using modern tools like dbt, Airflow, or similar.
Data Visualization: Proficiency in building polished dashboards using tools like Looker, Tableau, Superset, or Python visualization libraries (Matplotlib, Plotly).
Development Tools: Familiarity with version control (GitHub), CI/CD, and modern development workflows.
Data Architecture: Knowledge of modern data lake/warehouse architectures (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks) and transformation frameworks.
Business Acumen: Ability to understand and address business challenges through analytics engineering.
Bonus Skills:
Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP).
Familiarity with Docker or Kubernetes.
Job #: P71393
Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include bonus eligibility + equity eligibility + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
Base salary range shown. Total compensation also includes equity and bonus eligibility and benefits:
$207,485-$244,100 USD
Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
Coinbase is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. For US applicants, you may view the https://static-assets.coinbase.com/e-verify.pdf in certain locations, as required by law.
Coinbase is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact us at accommodationshttp://www.chromevox.com/tutorial/.
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AI Disclosure
For select roles, Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. A human recruiter will review your interview responses, provided in the form of a voice recording and/or transcript, to assess them against the qualifications and characteristics outlined in the job description.
For select roles, Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate.
The above pilots are for testing purposes and Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment. To request a reasonable accommodation due to disability, please contact accommodations[at]coinbase.com
