Senior Network Engineer - Ultra-Low Latency Trading

Coinbase; Honolulu (HI); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking an Infrastructure Lead on the Exchange team within Institutional to own the network infrastructure, deployment, and operational tooling behind a unified trading platform that runs across cloud and on-prem/colocated venues. This role focuses on latency-sensitive, multi-node trading environments and the ownership of production systems with startup-like ownership and Coinbase-scale reach.

You will mentor engineers and collaborate with SRE/Infra, Product, and trading-system teams

Qualifications

• 8+ years of network, infrastructure, or SRE engineering experience in latency-sensitive environments.
• Deep hands-on expertise with multicast networking, BGP, OSPF, VRFs, high-availability architectures, low-latency data-center switching, and physical network infrastructure.
• Proven ability to lead live incident response for production trading systems, manage risk during changes, and coordinate cross-functional resolution during market events.
• Experience with Fortinet or Palo Alto firewalls, VPNs, SNMP or gRPC telemetry, network automation using Python or Ansible, and strong Linux networking fundamentals in latency-critical environments.
• Familiarity with exchange or electronic trading system concepts; deep crypto experience is a plus, not a requirement.
• Uses generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own, operate, and optimize resilient, ultra-low-latency networks and physical data-center infrastructure supporting institutional trading, market data, and exchange connectivity across cloud and on-prem environments, including racking, cabling, cross-connects, and vendor coordination.
• Design and maintain routing, traffic-segmentation, and multicast market-data architectures using BGP, OSPF, VRFs, PIM, IGMP, and high-availability platforms such as Arista MLAG, Cisco vPC, and VRRP.
• Deploy and operate firewalls and secure connectivity across Fortinet and Palo Alto platforms, including IPsec VPNs, SSL VPNs, and third-party connections.
• Drive observability and operational excellence through SNMP, gRPC telemetry, latency and packet-loss analysis, microburst detection, and network automation using Python, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Lead safe production changes, incident response, failover testing, and out-of-hours maintenance for 24/7 trading systems, and participate in an on-call rotation.
• Mentor engineers and partner cross-functionally with SRE/Infra, Product, and trading-system teams to improve reliability, reduce single-point-of-failure risk, and increase developer velocity.

Skills

8+ years experience

Multicast networking

BGP

OSPF

VRFs

Low-latency DC switching

Arista MLAG

Cisco vPC

VRRP

Fortinet/Palo Alto firewalls

VPNs

Python

Ansible

Linux networking

Incident response

Cross-functional collaboration

AI for workflow optimization

Job description

Coinbase is seeking an Infrastructure Lead on the Exchange team within Institutional to own the network infrastructure, deployment, and operational tooling behind a unified trading platform that runs across cloud and on-prem/colocated venues. This role focuses on latency-sensitive, multi-node trading environments and the ownership of production systems with startup-like ownership and Coinbase-scale reach.

You will mentor engineers and collaborate with SRE/Infra, Product, and trading-system teams