Lead Infra Engineer, Latency Trading Platform (Remote)

Coinbase; Cheyenne (WY); On-site; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Institutional Everything Exchange. As an Infrastructure Lead on the Exchange team, you'll own the infrastructure, deployment, and operational tooling behind a unified trading platform spanning cloud and on-prem venues.

You’ll drive reliability, observability, and incident response for 24/7 systems; set standards, mentor engineers, and partner with Product, Institutional Markets, and SRE to turn platform needs into a roadmap.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of infrastructure, platform, or SRE engineering with ownership of production systems at scale.
• Experience running infrastructure for latency-sensitive trading environments, including on-prem/colocated deployments.
• Deep proficiency with orchestration tooling, containerized and baremetal deployments, and observability/logging tooling.
• Strong Linux performance and networking fundamentals in latency-critical environments.
• Experience delivering end-to-end: scoping, implementation, deploy safety, monitoring, and incident response.
• Experience in a regulated or financial environment where reliability and low-latency performance are critical.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure, deployment, and operational tooling for latency-sensitive, multi-node trading environments across cloud and on-prem.
• Drive reliability and developer velocity, owning observability, deploy safety, and incident response for systems that run 24/7.
• Set the operational bar through standards, reviews, and automation, and reduce single-point-of-failure risk across the trading stack.
• Partner with engineers building the trading platform to make latency-sensitive systems operable and performant.
• Mentor engineers and build team resilience across a lean, high-impact environment.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Institutional Markets, and SRE to turn platform needs into a roadmap.

Skills

Infrastructure ownership

Latency-sensitive trading

Linux networking fundamentals

Observability & monitoring

On-prem and cloud deployments

Team leadership / mentoring

AI-assisted workflows

Tools

Orchestration tooling

Container deployments

Bare-metal deployments

Observability tooling

Job description

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Institutional Everything Exchange. As an Infrastructure Lead on the Exchange team, you'll own the infrastructure, deployment, and operational tooling behind a unified trading platform spanning cloud and on-prem venues.

You’ll drive reliability, observability, and incident response for 24/7 systems; set standards, mentor engineers, and partner with Product, Institutional Markets, and SRE to turn platform needs into a roadmap.