Remote-First Trading Infrastructure Lead

Coinbase; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking an Infrastructure Lead for the Exchange team to own deployment, infrastructure, and operational tooling behind a unified trading platform across cloud and on-prem environments. Lead reliability, velocity, and incident response for 24/7 operations, while mentoring engineers in a lean, high-impact setting.

The role requires ownership of production systems at scale, latency-sensitive trading experience, and strong Linux networking fundamentals.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure, platform, or SRE with ownership of production systems at scale.
• Experience running latency-sensitive trading infrastructure, including on-prem/colocated deployments.

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure, deployment, and tooling for latency-sensitive, multi-node trading across cloud and on-prem.
• Improve reliability and developer velocity; own observability, deployment safety, and incident response 24/7.
• Set operational bar via standards, reviews, and automation; reduce single-point-of-failure risk.

Skills

Infrastructure ownership

Latency-sensitive trading

Orchestration tooling

Linux performance

End-to-end delivery

Regulated environments

Generative AI governance

Tools

Kubernetes

Containerization

Observability tooling

Job description

Coinbase is seeking an Infrastructure Lead for the Exchange team to own deployment, infrastructure, and operational tooling behind a unified trading platform across cloud and on-prem environments. Lead reliability, velocity, and incident response for 24/7 operations, while mentoring engineers in a lean, high-impact setting.

The role requires ownership of production systems at scale, latency-sensitive trading experience, and strong Linux networking fundamentals.