Coinbase

Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Trading

Coinbase
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2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$218k - $257k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own infrastructure, deployment, and operational tooling for latency-sensitive, multi-node trading environments across cloud and on-premises venues.
  • Drive reliability and developer velocity through observability, deploy safety, automation, and incident response for 24/7 systems.
  • Establish operational standards and reduce single-point-of-failure risk across the trading stack.
  • Partner with trading-platform engineers to make latency-sensitive systems operable and performant.
  • Mentor engineers and build team resilience in a lean, high-impact environment.
  • Partner with Product, Institutional Markets, and SRE to translate platform needs into a roadmap.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of infrastructure, platform, or SRE engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of production systems at scale.
  • Experience running infrastructure for latency-sensitive trading environments, including on-premises or colocated deployments.
  • Deep proficiency with orchestration tooling, containerized deployments, bare-metal deployments, and observability or logging tooling.
  • Strong Linux performance and networking fundamentals in latency-critical environments.
  • Experience delivering end to end, including scoping, implementation, deploy safety, monitoring, and incident response.
  • Experience in a regulated or financial environment where reliability and low-latency performance are critical.
  • Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Benefits

  • Remote-first, but not remote-only, with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”
  • Benefits include medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
  • Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility.

Tech Stack

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
Coinbase

About Coinbase

5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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