About this role

▸about Coinbase — company background

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

As a Senior Investigator in Coinbase’s Financial Intelligence Unit within Compliance (2LoD), you’ll help drive Coinbase’s financial crime investigations capability across multiple jurisdictions. This team leads complex reactive and proactive investigations, develops intelligence on emerging typologies and risk patterns, and translates investigative insights into high-quality SAR/STR decisions, escalations and programme improvements. You’ll work on high-impact matters across Coinbase’s global platform, partnering closely with MLROs, local compliance teams, operations teams and cross functional stakeholders to protect Coinbase and its customers from financial crime.

What you’ll do:

Own end-to-end investigations into complex AML/CFT matters, from alert review or referral, through case development, disposition and SAR/STR submission to relevant FIUs.

Conduct delegated MLRO reviews of Suspicious Transaction Reports and Suspicious Activity Reports prior to filing, ensuring accuracy, quality and regulatory defensibility.

Lead proactive investigations, using transaction data, on-chain activity, trading behaviour and cross functional intelligence and OSINT to identify emerging typologies, threat patterns and high-risk activity.

Develop actionable intelligence from casework and analytics to inform escalations, regulatory reporting, control enhancements and improvements to detection and investigation workflows.

Partner internally with Country MLROs, local compliance teams, operations teams and other stakeholders on high-risk matters, information sharing and investigation strategy.