Remote-First Senior Staff Engineer Ultra-Latency Trading

Coinbase; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Institutional Everything Exchange. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Exchange team, you will set architectural direction for the matching engine, order management, market data, and unified trading systems that clear billions of dollars in daily volume.

You’ll operate as the most senior technical voice across multiple teams, making the calls on latency, correctness, and resilience that everything else depends on.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with production trading, exchange, or market-data systems.
• Deep expertise in low-latency distributed systems and backend languages (Java/C++/Go) with JVM/Linux performance tuning.
• Architectural ownership of end-to-end trading platforms across order management, multi-venue connectivity, and real-time risk.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and architecture for a core Exchange domain, driving multi-quarter initiatives from ambiguity to delivery.
• Lead design of ultra-low-latency, event-sourced trading systems across matching, risk, and market data in cloud and colocated environments.
• Drive cross-team technical alignment across Exchange, Prime, and Derivatives with senior leadership.
• Set and inspect the quality bar across teams—deterministic testing, failover design, incident leadership, and 24/7 operational standards.
• Maintain hands-on contribution while guiding other senior engineers and tech leads.
• Mentor L5-L6 engineers and build the next rung of technical leadership on a lean, high-leverage team.

Skills

Low-latency systems

Java

C++

Go

Architecture ownership

Incident command

Job description

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Institutional Everything Exchange. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Exchange team, you will set architectural direction for the matching engine, order management, market data, and unified trading systems that clear billions of dollars in daily volume.

You’ll operate as the most senior technical voice across multiple teams, making the calls on latency, correctness, and resilience that everything else depends on.