This role pays more than
86%
of similar roles. Most pay
$146,500–$215,000
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$237k
versus about
$181k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Coinbase
Coinbase Global is a publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange platform where consumers can buy, sell, and store digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies. Industry: Cryptocurrency Exchange & Financial Technology
Coinbase currently has
58 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$215,177–$253,150
across 50 roles with salary data.
The Forward Deployed Engineer, Compliance role sits within the Office of the CTO as a founding engineer embedded inside the Compliance organization. You will serve as the connective tissue between compliance stakeholders and engineering teams, identifying high-value workflow opportunities such as transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and regulatory change management. Your daily responsibilities include prototyping solutions using an internal AI platform, defining build-versus-buy strategies for tooling, and ensuring all automated outputs are traceable and defensible to regulators. You will translate complex regulatory requirements into engineering specifications while driving tool adoption through feedback loops. The role requires over five years of software engineering experience, expertise in LLM-based applications including prompt engineering and hallucination guardrails, and familiarity with multi-agent orchestration. You must be able to navigate the technical challenges of trade surveillance, risk assessment, and audit-ready data handling within a regulated environment.
What does a Forward Deployed Engineer earn?
Median $215000 from 45 postings across 23 companies.