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Coinbase is seeking a Trade Surveillance Associate to join the Trade Surveillance team within Compliance. This role is central to maintaining Coinbase as a trusted platform by monitoring markets, investigating suspicious trading behavior, and enforcing Coinbase's Trading Rules.
You will investigate alerts generated by surveillance systems on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis, analyzing trading patterns to identify potential violations including spoofing, wash trading, and other manipulative activity. You'll escalate findings as needed and document investigations in clear, well-organized reports and memoranda.
Key responsibilities include executing market assessments for new asset launches and relaunches following trading halts, evaluating market depth, liquidity, and trading behavior relative to other assets and exchanges. You'll strengthen Coinbase's Trading Rules and surveillance policies by identifying gaps, recommending enhancements, and partnering with engineering and support staff to build process efficiencies and system improvements.
You will collaborate with compliance colleagues across Coinbase business lines on investigations, regulatory requests, and inquiries, ensuring thorough documentation and timely resolution. Additionally, you'll monitor regulatory and market structure developments that may affect Coinbase's markets, proactively advising the team on changes that impact the scope or approach of the surveillance program.
Coinbase is a remote-first but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called "surges."
REQUIREMENTS:
- 2+ years of relevant experience in market surveillance, trade monitoring, or a trading capacity at a regulated entity (exchange, broker-dealer, or comparable)
- Working knowledge of applicable securities, commodities, or digital asset laws, regulations, and market structure, with the ability to apply them to surveillance scenarios
- Demonstrated ability to analyze trading data, identify patterns of potential market manipulation, and document findings in clear, well-organized investigative reports and memoranda
- Experience with surveillance technologies and data tools, with the ability to develop and implement monitoring reports and leverage data (e.g., SQL) to support investigations
- Ability to utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
