Senior Staff Architect: Low-Latency Trading Platform

Coinbase; Sacramento (CA); Hybrid; USD 254,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Everything Exchange. As an Architect on the Trading team, you’ll design, build, and own the core trading systems that power our platform, including OMS/EMS, low-latency messaging, and multi-venue connectivity.

You’ll lead end-to-end architecture across a high-throughput, regulated environment, drive reliability and performance, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Risk, Security, and Compliance to translate

Qualifications

• Hands-on architect capable of designing, building, deploying, and supporting 24/7 trading systems.
• Extensive backend engineering experience with production-grade distributed systems.
• Experience architecting end-to-end trading platforms (OMS/EMS, multi-exchange).
• Deep proficiency in low-latency Java and high-throughput messaging.
• Experience delivering projects end-to-end: scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring.
• Experience in regulated financial environments prioritizing correctness and latency.
• Ability to balance engineering trade-offs with end-user quality in product decisions.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight to improve workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the end-to-end trading platform: the sequencer, the low-latency connectivity and messaging fabric, OMS/EMS, multi-venue connectivity, and execution.
• Design low-latency, high-throughput systems for real-time financial products used across institutional and retail markets.
• Drive reliability and performance, owning SLOs, observability, and incident response for systems where correctness and latency are non-negotiable.
• Set the technical bar through code, design reviews, and standards, and pay down the technical debt that matters most.
• Reduce single-point-of-failure risk across the trading stack and build team resilience through mentorship.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Risk, Security, and Compliance to turn technical vision into a roadmap.

Skills

Architectural design

Backend engineering

Low-latency Java

High-throughput messaging

Distributed systems

Trading platform

Financial compliance

Product decision making

Generative AI oversight

Job description

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Everything Exchange. As an Architect on the Trading team, you’ll design, build, and own the core trading systems that power our platform, including OMS/EMS, low-latency messaging, and multi-venue connectivity.

You’ll lead end-to-end architecture across a high-throughput, regulated environment, drive reliability and performance, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Risk, Security, and Compliance to translate