Overview
As a Trade Surveillance Associate, you help keep Coinbase trusted by monitoring markets, investigating suspicious activity, and enforcing trading rules. You’ll work with compliance and engineering to strengthen surveillance, review alerts, and support asset launches with market assessments. You’ll translate complex trading data into clear investigations and collaborate across business lines to adapt to evolving regulations. This role offers impact through improving market integrity at a fast-growing, remote-first company with quarterly in-person surges. You’ll leverage data and AI responsibly to drive efficiency and quality in surveillance workflows.
Responsibilities
- Investigate surveillance alerts and analyze trading patterns to identify potential violations such as spoofing or wash trading
- Conduct market assessments for new asset launches and relaunches, evaluating depth, liquidity, and behavior
- Strengthen trading rules and surveillance policies by identifying gaps and guiding system improvements with engineering
- Collaborate with compliance across business lines on investigations and regulatory requests
- Monitor regulatory and market structure developments and advise on impact to the surveillance program
Key requirements
- 2+ years of experience in market surveillance, trade monitoring, or a trading role at a regulated entity
- Working knowledge of securities, commodities, or digital asset laws and market structure
- Ability to analyze trading data, identify manipulation patterns, and document findings clearly
- Experience with surveillance technologies and data tools; ability to develop monitoring reports and use data (e.g., SQL) for investigations
- Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
- analytical thinking
- clear written communication
- cross-functional collaboration
- surveillance technologies
- data tools
- SQL
Trade Surveillance Associate in London employer: Coinbase
At Coinbase, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters collaboration and innovation. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through tailored development opportunities and a supportive environment that values diversity and inclusion. Located in a vibrant international market, our team enjoys the unique advantage of working with high-net-worth clients while contributing to a mission-driven company that prioritises customer outcomes.
