2 months ago
Base Salary
$191k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain market data components including feed handlers, normalization pipelines, distribution systems, and venue connectivity.
- Design and implement low-latency, high-throughput services for real-time market data consumed by trading systems.
- Improve reliability and performance through observability, on-call participation, and incident response.
- Write high-quality, well-tested code and contribute to engineering standards.
- Partner with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver institutional trading capabilities.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of backend engineering experience building and maintaining production low-latency systems.
- Hands-on experience with market data infrastructure such as feed handlers, normalization, or distribution.
- Proficiency in low-latency Java or C++ and familiarity with Aeron, SBE, or similar high-throughput messaging frameworks.
- Familiarity with venue or exchange connectivity and market data protocols including FIX, ITCH/OUCH, and multicast.
- Experience shipping features end-to-end and operating systems in production.
- Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Benefits
- Remote-first, but not remote-only, work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called surges.
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
- Potential equity and bonus eligibility in addition to base salary.
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.