2 months ago
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.
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.