Infrastructure Lead: Ultra-Low Latency Trading Network

Wiraa; United States; Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Performance bonuses

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan

Remote-first with quarterly in-personサ

Professional growth and mentorship

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking an Infrastructure Lead to join the Exchange team within Institutional. You will own the network infrastructure, deployment, and operational tooling that support a unified trading platform across cloud and on-prem venues.

This platform enables some of the world’s largest financial institutions to trade with speed, depth, and trust. You will be responsible for maintaining latency-sensitive, multi-node trading environments that prioritize reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in network, infra, or SRE with ownership of production systems in latency-sensitive environments.
• Expertise in multicast networking, BGP, OSPF, VRFs, and high-availability architectures.
• Hands-on knowledge of Fortinet or Palo Alto firewalls, VPN technologies, and network telemetry tools such as SNMP or gRPC.

Responsibilities

• Own, operate, and optimize resilient, ultra-low-latency network and physical data-center infrastructure supporting institutional trading, market data, and exchange connectivity across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Manage racking, cabling, cross-connects, and vendor coordination for data-center operations.
• Design and maintain routing, traffic segmentation, and multicast market-data architectures utilizing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, VRFs, PIM, and IGMP.
• Implement and manage high-availability platforms including Arista MLAG, Cisco vPC, and VRRP.
• Deploy and operate firewalls and secure connectivity using Fortinet and Palo Alto platforms, including IPsec VPNs, SSL VPNs, and third-party connections.
• Drive observability and operational excellence through telemetry (SNMP, gRPC), latency and packet-loss analysis, microburst detection, and network automation.
• Lead safe production changes, incident response, failover testing, and out-of-hours maintenance for 24/7 trading systems.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure continuous system reliability.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate cross-functionally with SRE/Infrastructure, Product, and trading-system teams to improve system reliability, reduce single points of failure, and increase developer velocity.

Skills

Latency-sensitive environments

Multicast networking

BGP

OSPF

VRFs

High-availability networks

Low-latency data-center switching

Incident response

Network automation

Python

Ansible

Linux networking

Trading systems

AI governance

Tools

Fortinet

Palo Alto

IPsec VPNs

SSL VPNs

gRPC

SNMP

Job description

Coinbase is seeking an Infrastructure Lead to join the Exchange team within Institutional. You will own the network infrastructure, deployment, and operational tooling that support a unified trading platform across cloud and on-prem venues.

This platform enables some of the world’s largest financial institutions to trade with speed, depth, and trust. You will be responsible for maintaining latency-sensitive, multi-node trading environments that prioritize reliability and performance.