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 the architecture of the real-time, cross-asset risk and margin engine:: user and portfolio modeling, multifactor and borrow risk, and cross-portfolio evaluation at scale.
Design low-latency, high-throughput risk systems, keeping correctness and: performance in step with a growing trading platform.
Drive reliability and performance, owning SLOs, observability, and incident: response for risk-critical systems.
Set the technical bar through code, design reviews, and standards, and pay: down the technical debt that matters most.
Serve as the risk-architecture anchor for the team, mentoring engineers and: reducing single-point-of-failure risk.
Partner cross-functionally with Product, Trading, Financing/Credit Risk,: Security, and Compliance to turn technical vision into a roadmap.
What they're looking for
- Hands-on architect, able to design, build, deploy, and support 24/7 risk: 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 a cross-asset risk system (crypto, equities,: FCM, or derivatives) with user/portfolio modeling and real-time, cross-portfolio evaluation at scale.
- Deep proficiency in low-latency Java and high-throughput messaging (Aeron,: SBE, or similar), designing event-driven, high-availability systems.
