Base Salary
$263k - $309k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own technical strategy and architecture for a core Exchange domain and drive multi-quarter initiatives from ambiguity through delivery.
- Design ultra-low-latency, event-sourced trading systems spanning matching, risk, and market data across cloud and colocated environments.
- Drive technical alignment across Exchange, Prime, and Derivatives teams and influence senior engineering and product leadership.
- Set quality and operational standards covering deterministic testing, failover design, incident leadership, and safe production changes.
- Maintain significant hands-on engineering contributions while leading execution through senior engineers and technical leads.
- Mentor L5-L6 engineers and develop future technical leadership.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant ownership of production trading, exchange, or market-data systems at scale.
- Deep expertise in low-latency distributed systems and a backend language such as Java, C++, or Go.
- Fluency in JVM and Linux performance tuning.
- Demonstrated architectural ownership of an end-to-end trading platform covering order management, multi-venue connectivity, and real-time risk.
- Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority.
- Experience operating latency-sensitive systems in on-premises or colocated and cloud environments, including incident command and safe production change.
- Interest in crypto and institutional markets; deep crypto experience is a plus rather than a requirement.
- 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 eligibility for equity and bonuses in addition to base salary.
H1B sponsorship
Sponsorship for this role is unconfirmed.
Coinbase’s past filings provide context. They do not guarantee sponsorship for a current opening.
H1B petition approvals by fiscal year
- FY 2026 · through Q266
21 initial/new employment approvals · 28 changes of employer
- FY 2025147
25 initial/new employment approvals · 59 changes of employer
- FY 202477
16 initial/new employment approvals · 17 changes of employer
Counts are petitions, including continuing employment and amendments, rather than unique hires. Source: USCIS
Job fields receiving H1B certifications
Partial fiscal year, through Q3
- Software Developers77 · 65%
- Computer and Information Systems Managers7 · 6%
- Information Technology Project Managers7 · 6%
- Data Scientists6 · 5%
- Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists4 · 3%
Job fields come from government occupation codes, rather than internal departments. Counts are certified Labor Condition Applications, not visa approvals or unique hires. Withdrawn and denied cases are excluded.
Source: US Department of LaborMatched government employer: COINBASE INC
About Coinbase
Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world. The most trusted crypto platform, Coinbase stores more digital assets than any other company and is building the everything exchange — one place to access crypto, equities, derivatives, prediction markets, and more. Coinbase serves consumers through its suite of financial apps, institutions through Coinbase Prime, and developers through the Coinbase Developer Platform. Every experience runs on Coinbase's full-stack platform powering the future of finance: secure custody, deep exchange liquidity, stablecoin infrastructure, and global settlement rails — all built on a decade-plus foundation of security and compliance.