Senior Market Data Engineer – Real-Time, Low-Latency

Coinbase; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 207,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Market Data Engineer to design, build, and own systems that generate, capture, normalize, and distribute real-time market data with low latency across Coinbase. You will lead a lean team to deliver reliable data infrastructure for trading across markets.

The role requires 5+ years in backend engineering, experience with market data systems, and proficiency in Java or C++ with high-throughput messaging.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering, with experience building and maintaining production low-latency systems.

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 help raise the quality bar on a lean team.
• Partner with engineers, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver market data capabilities.

Skills

Backend engineering

Market data systems

Low-latency Java

Market data protocols

End-to-end delivery

AI governance

Aeron

SBE

Tools

Aeron

SBE

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Market Data Engineer to design, build, and own systems that generate, capture, normalize, and distribute real-time market data with low latency across Coinbase. You will lead a lean team to deliver reliable data infrastructure for trading across markets.

The role requires 5+ years in backend engineering, experience with market data systems, and proficiency in Java or C++ with high-throughput messaging.