Senior Real-Time Cross-Asset Risk Architect (Remote-First)

Coinbase, Inc.; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); Remote; USD 254,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

401(k)

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Job summary

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Everything Exchange, powering systems that let the world's largest financial institutions trade across markets with speed and trust. As a Risk Architect on the Trading team, you will design, build, and own the real-time risk engine at the heart of a unified platform serving Retail, Prime, and wholesale clients.

Responsibilities include owning cross-asset risk and margin modeling, high-throughput, low-latency architectures,

Qualifications

• Hands-on architect with ability to design, build, deploy, and support 24/7 risk systems processing billions of dollars daily.
• Extensive backend engineering experience with ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems.
• Track record of architecting cross-asset risk systems (crypto, equities, derivatives) with real-time, cross-portfolio evaluation at scale.
• Deep proficiency in low-latency Java and high-throughput messaging (Aeron, SBE) for event-driven, high-availability systems.
• Experience with multifactor and borrow risk, margin, or clearing in regulated financial environments.
• Experience delivering projects end-to-end: scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring, iteration.
• Ability to balance engineering trade-offs with end-user quality, demonstrated through shipped products.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the real-time, cross-asset risk and margin engine: user and portfolio modeling, multifactor and borrow risk, 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 impactful 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

Architecting real-time risk systems

Backend engineering

Cross-asset risk systems

Low-latency Java

Event-driven architectures

Regulated financial risk

End-to-end delivery

AI governance

Aeron

SBE

Java

Tools

Aeron

SBE

Java

Job description

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Everything Exchange, powering systems that let the world's largest financial institutions trade across markets with speed and trust. As a Risk Architect on the Trading team, you will design, build, and own the real-time risk engine at the heart of a unified platform serving Retail, Prime, and wholesale clients.

Responsibilities include owning cross-asset risk and margin modeling, high-throughput, low-latency architectures,