Remote-Ready Real-Time Cross-Asset Risk Architect

Coinbase, Inc.; Providence (RI); Hybrid; USD 254,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Everything Exchange. The Risk Architect on the Trading team will design, build, and own the real-time risk engine that powers cross-asset user and portfolio risk evaluation at scale.

This role offers startup ownership with the reach of Coinbase, requiring deep backend and low-latency architecture, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across Product, Trading, Security, and Compliance.

Qualifications

• Hands-on architect able to design, build, deploy, and support 24/7 risk systems that process billions of dollars of transactions daily.
• Extensive backend engineering experience with ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems.
• Track record of architecting a cross-asset risk system with real-time, cross-portfolio evaluation at scale.
• Deep proficiency in low-latency Java and high-throughput messaging, designing event-driven, high-availability systems.
• Experience with multifactor and borrow risk, margin, or clearing in regulated financial environments where correctness and auditability matter.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the real-time, cross-asset risk and margin engine: user and portfolio modeling, multifactor and borrow risk, and cross-portfolio evaluation at scale.
• Design low-latency, high-throughput risk systems, keeping correctness and performance in step with a growing trading platform.
• Drive reliability and performance, owning SLOs, observability, and incident response for risk-critical systems.
• Set the technical bar through code, design reviews, and standards, and reduce the most important technical debt.
• Serve as the risk-architecture anchor for the team, mentoring engineers and reducing single-point-of-failure risk.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Trading, Financing/Credit Risk, Security, and Compliance to turn technical vision into a roadmap.

Skills

Hands-on architect

Backend engineering

Cross-asset risk

Low-latency Java

High-throughput messaging

Event-driven systems

Multifactor risk

Borrow risk

Auditability

Tools

Aeron

SBE

Job description

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Everything Exchange. The Risk Architect on the Trading team will design, build, and own the real-time risk engine that powers cross-asset user and portfolio risk evaluation at scale.

This role offers startup ownership with the reach of Coinbase, requiring deep backend and low-latency architecture, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across Product, Trading, Security, and Compliance.