2 months ago
Base Salary
$254k - $299k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture of the end-to-end trading platform, including the sequencer, low-latency connectivity and messaging fabric, OMS/EMS, multi-venue connectivity, and execution.
- Design low-latency, high-throughput systems for real-time financial products serving institutional and retail markets.
- Own reliability, SLOs, observability, and incident response for 24/7 trading systems.
- Set technical standards through code, design reviews, and technical-debt prioritization.
- Reduce single points of failure and build team resilience through mentorship.
- Partner with Product, Risk, Security, and Compliance to turn technical vision into a roadmap.
- Use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Requirements
- Extensive backend engineering experience and ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems.
- Demonstrated experience architecting an end-to-end trading platform spanning OMS, front office, middle office, and multi-exchange connectivity.
- Deep proficiency in low-latency Java and high-throughput messaging technologies such as Aeron, SBE, or similar.
- Experience designing event-driven, highly available systems and delivering projects from scoping through architecture, implementation, monitoring, and iteration.
- Experience building systems in regulated or financial environments where correctness, auditability, and low-latency performance are critical.
- Experience making user-facing product decisions that balance engineering trade-offs with end-user quality, supported by shipped products.
- Ability to design, build, deploy, and support 24/7 trading systems processing billions of dollars in daily transactions.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- 401(k) benefits.
- Equity and bonus eligibility may be included in total compensation.
- Remote-first but not remote-only work model, with quarterly in-person working sessions called surges.
About Coinbase
Coinbase builds a cryptocurrency platform for consumers, institutions, and developers to buy, sell, store, and use digital assets. Its products include the Coinbase app/exchange, Coinbase Prime for institutions, custody services, and developer APIs, and it earns primarily from transaction fees and subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and now remote-first, Coinbase is a public company (NASDAQ: COIN) serving major crypto markets in the U.S. and abroad.