Remote-First Senior Market Data Engineer Low-Latency

Coinbase; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading. As a Senior Data Engineer, Market Data on the Institutional Markets team, you will build and operate the systems that capture, normalize, and distribute real-time market data across Coinbase with low latency.

You will work on feed handlers, normalization pipelines, distribution systems, and venue connectivity, designing high-throughput services and improving reliability through observability and on-call participation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend engineering experience in production low-latency systems.
• Hands-on experience with market data infrastructure (feed handlers, normalization, or distribution).
• Proficiency in low-latency Java or C++ and familiarity with high-throughput messaging frameworks.
• Familiarity with venue/exchange connectivity and market data protocols (FIX, ITCH/OUCH, multicast).
• Track record shipping features end-to-end and operating what you build in production.
• Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain market data components including feed handlers, normalization pipelines, distribution systems, and venue connectivity.
• Design and implement low-latency, high-throughput services for real-time market data consumed by trading systems across the platform.
• Drive reliability and performance improvements through observability, on-call participation, and incident response.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code and contribute to engineering standards on a lean team.
• Partner with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver market data capabilities that support Coinbase's institutional trading roadmap.

Skills

Backend engineering

Low-latency systems

Market data

Java or C++

Aeron/SBE

FIX/ITCH/multicast

AI in workflow

Production experience

Job description

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading. As a Senior Data Engineer, Market Data on the Institutional Markets team, you will build and operate the systems that capture, normalize, and distribute real-time market data across Coinbase with low latency.

You will work on feed handlers, normalization pipelines, distribution systems, and venue connectivity, designing high-throughput services and improving reliability through observability and on-call participation.