Remote-First Market Data Engineer — Real-Time Trading

Coinbase, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 207,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Everything Exchange, powering the systems that let the world's largest financial institutions trade across markets with speed, depth, and trust.

As a Market Data Engineer on the Markets team, you'll architect, build and own the systems that generate, capture, normalize, and distribute real-time market data across Coinbase at low latency - the ticker plant and distribution backbone of a unified trading platform - while

Qualifications

• Backend engineering experience with production low-latency systems.
• Hands-on market data systems: feed handlers, normalization, or distribution.
• Proficiency in low-latency Java or C++ and high-throughput messaging.
• Familiarity with venue/exchange connectivity and market data protocols.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate market data components: feed handlers, normalization, distribution, and venue connectivity.
• Design low-latency, high-throughput systems for real-time market data used by trading systems.
• Contribute to reliability and performance, participating in observability, on-call, and incident response.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code and raise the quality bar on a lean team.
• Partner with engineers, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver market data capabilities.

Skills

Backend engineering

Low-latency systems

Market data systems

Java/C++

Aeron

SBE

FIX protocol

Tools

Aeron

SBE

FIX protocol

Job description

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Everything Exchange, powering the systems that let the world's largest financial institutions trade across markets with speed, depth, and trust.

As a Market Data Engineer on the Markets team, you'll architect, build and own the systems that generate, capture, normalize, and distribute real-time market data across Coinbase at low latency - the ticker plant and distribution backbone of a unified trading platform - while