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 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 for systems where correctness and latency are non-negotiable.
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.
What they're looking for
- 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.
