Senior Real-Time Trading Systems Engineer (Remote)

Coinbase; Salem (OR); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Exchange team within the Institutional product group. You will build and operate real-time trading systems—matching engines, order management, market data, and funding rate computation—supporting billions in daily volume for major institutions.

You'll own latency-sensitive backend systems, drive design decisions, and collaborate with Product and leadership to deliver measurable improvements in throughput and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in production trading, exchange, or financial infrastructure at scale.
• Backend proficiency in Java, C++, or Go with latency-oriented optimization on Linux/JVM.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate low-latency, event-sourced trading systems across cloud and colocated environments.
• Own reliability and correctness of production systems processing high-throughput data 24/7.

Skills

Java

C++

Go

Distributed systems

Performance tuning

Reliability engineering

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Exchange team within the Institutional product group. You will build and operate real-time trading systems—matching engines, order management, market data, and funding rate computation—supporting billions in daily volume for major institutions.

You'll own latency-sensitive backend systems, drive design decisions, and collaborate with Product and leadership to deliver measurable improvements in throughput and reliability.