3 hours ago
Base Salary
$186k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency backend APIs and services for order entry, market data, trade execution, and real-time trading workflows.
- Own services across technical design, implementation, deployment, observability, scaling, and production support, including on-call participation.
- Improve the performance, reliability, availability, correctness, latency, and operational readiness of distributed systems.
- Partner with Product, SRE, Security, and other engineering teams to translate customer and business needs into technical solutions.
- Contribute to design reviews, code reviews, well-tested code, mentorship, and continuous engineering improvement.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production backend or distributed systems in Java, Go, or a comparable backend language.
- Experience designing and scaling high-volume, performance-sensitive services with concurrency, event-driven architecture, reliability, and performance optimization.
- Experience with real-time or financial systems, FIX or comparable market connectivity protocols, or high-throughput messaging technologies such as Aeron or Kafka.
- Experience building customer-facing APIs using FIX, REST, WebSocket, or comparable protocols and operating services in cloud and Kubernetes-based environments.
- Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and event-driven or streaming data systems.
- Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits are stated as available.
- Potential equity and bonus eligibility are stated in addition to base salary.
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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.