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

Coinbase; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading with the Everything Exchange. We seek a Senior Data Engineer, Market Data to build and operate real-time market data systems—feed handlers, normalization, and distribution—across Coinbase.

You’ll work on low-latency services, venue connectivity, and high-throughput messaging within a collaborative, remote-first environment. You’ll contribute to reliability, performance, and production ownership, collaborating with engineers, product

Qualifications

• 3 years of backend engineering experience building and maintaining production low-latency systems.
• Hands-on experience with at least one area of market data infrastructure (feed handlers, normalization, or distribution).
• Proficiency in low-latency Java (or C++) and familiarity with high-throughput messaging frameworks (Aeron, SBE, or similar).
• 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.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

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

Java/C++

Market data infra

Feed handlers

Venue connectivity

FIX/ITCH

Aeron/SBE

High-throughput messaging

On-call / incident response

AI for workflow

Education

Bachelor-like degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Aeron

SBE

Job description

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading with the Everything Exchange. We seek a Senior Data Engineer, Market Data to build and operate real-time market data systems—feed handlers, normalization, and distribution—across Coinbase.

You’ll work on low-latency services, venue connectivity, and high-throughput messaging within a collaborative, remote-first environment. You’ll contribute to reliability, performance, and production ownership, collaborating with engineers, product