Lead Senior Staff Engineer - Low-Latency Trading Platform

Coinbase; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer to set architectural direction for the Exchange team's core trading systems. You will own latency-critical components, influence multiple teams, and maintain high reliability in a cloud and colocated mix. This role blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive end-to-end platform ownership, and shape decisions for order management, market data, and risk across the firm's trading ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with production trading, exchange, or market-data systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and architecture for a core Exchange domain across multi-quarter initiatives.
• Lead design of ultra-low-latency trading systems spanning matching, risk, and market data.
• Drive cross-team alignment across Exchange, Prime, and Derivatives.

Skills

Low-latency systems

Java

C++

Go

JVM/Linux tuning

Architecture ownership

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer to set architectural direction for the Exchange team's core trading systems. You will own latency-critical components, influence multiple teams, and maintain high reliability in a cloud and colocated mix. This role blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive end-to-end platform ownership, and shape decisions for order management, market data, and risk across the firm's trading ecosystem.