The opportunity
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
What you'll do
Own, operate, and optimize resilient, ultra-low-latency networks and physical: data-center infrastructure supporting institutional trading, market data, and exchange connectivity across cloud and on-prem environments, including racking, cabling, cross-connects, and vendor coordination.
Design and maintain routing, traffic-segmentation, and multicast market-data: architectures using BGP, OSPF, VRFs, PIM, IGMP, and high-availability platforms such as Arista MLAG, Cisco vPC, and VRRP.
Deploy and operate firewalls and secure connectivity across Fortinet and Palo: Alto platforms, including IPsec VPNs, SSL VPNs, and third-party connections.
Drive observability and operational excellence through SNMP, gRPC telemetry,: latency and packet-loss analysis, microburst detection, and network automation using Python, Ansible, or similar tools.
Lead safe production changes, incident response, failover testing, and: out-of-hours maintenance for 24/7 trading systems, and participate in an on-call rotation.
Mentor engineers and partner cross-functionally with SRE/Infra, Product, and: trading-system teams to improve reliability, reduce single-point-of-failure risk, and increase developer velocity.
What they're looking for
- + years of network, infrastructure, or SRE engineering experience with: demonstrated ownership of production systems in financial services, electronic trading, or another latency-sensitive environment, including on-prem/colocated deployments.
- Deep hands-on expertise with multicast networking, BGP, OSPF, VRFs,: high-availability architectures, low-latency data-center switching, and physical network infrastructure.
- Proven ability to lead live incident response for production trading systems,: manage risk during changes, and coordinate cross-functional resolution during market events.
- Experience with Fortinet or Palo Alto firewalls, VPNs, SNMP or gRPC: telemetry, network automation using Python or Ansible, and strong Linux networking fundamentals in latency-critical environments.
