About the company
Coinbase is a remote-first company building the future of institutional trading as part of the Everything Exchange, powering systems that let the world's largest financial institutions trade across markets with speed, depth, and trust.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture of the end-to-end trading platform: the sequencer, the low-latency connectivity and messaging fabric, OMS/EMS, multi-venue connectivity, and execution
- Design low-latency, high-throughput systems for real-time financial products used across institutional and retail markets
- Drive reliability and performance, owning SLOs, observability, and incident response
- Set the technical bar through code, design reviews, and standards, and pay down the technical debt that matters most
- Reduce single-point-of-failure risk across the trading stack and build team resilience through mentorship
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Risk, Security, and Compliance to turn technical vision into a roadmap
Requirements
- Hands-on architect, able to design, build, deploy, and support 24/7 trading systems that process billions of dollars of transactions daily
- Extensive backend engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems
- Track record of architecting an end-to-end trading platform (OMS, front/middle office, multi-exchange connectivity), not just a single gateway
- Deep proficiency in low-latency Java and high-throughput messaging (Aeron, SBE, or similar), designing event-driven, high-availability systems
- Experience delivering projects end-to-end: scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring, and iteration
- Experience building systems in a regulated or financial environment
- Responsible use of generative AI, with human oversight
Conditions
- Remote - USA
- Base salary range: $253,895 — $298,700 USD annually (excluding equity and bonus)
- Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k))