Staff Data Engineer, Market Data

RADEMACHER GERÄTE-ELEKTRONIK GmbH; United States; On-site; USD 207,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Market Data Engineer on the Markets team to architect, build, and own real-time market data infrastructure. You will create feed handlers, normalization, and distribution components with low-latency, high-throughput design, impacting trading systems across the platform.

You will work with cross-functional partners to deliver market data capabilities, participate in observability and incident response, and write high-quality, tested code in a lean team environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering for production low-latency systems.
• Hands-on experience with market data systems and feed handlers.
• Proficiency in low-latency Java or C++ and high-throughput messaging.
• Familiarity with venue connectivity and market data protocols like FIX.
• Track record delivering features end-to-end and operating what you build.
• Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate market data components: feed handlers, normalization, distribution, venue connectivity.
• Design low-latency, high-throughput real-time market data systems.
• Contribute to reliability, observability, on-call and incident response.
• Write high-quality, tested code and raise quality on lean team.
• Collaborate with engineers, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver market data capabilities.

Skills

Backend engineering

Low-latency systems

Market data systems

Java or C++

Market data protocols (FIX, ITCH/OUCH)

On-call / incident response

Observability

Tools

Aeron

SBE

FIX tooling

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn’t a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called surges. learn more about working at Coinbase.

Team/ Role Paragraph:

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Everything Exchange, powering the systems that let the world's largest financial institutions trade across markets with speed, depth, and trust. As a Market Data Engineer on the Markets team, you'll architect, build and own the systems that generate, capture, normalize, and distribute real-time market data across Coinbase at low latency - the ticker plant and distribution backbone of a unified trading platform - while leading a lean, high-impact team. It's a rare chance to architect market data infrastructure from the ground up, with the ownership of a startup and the reach of Coinbase.

What you'll do:

• Build and operate market data components: feed handlers, normalization, distribution, and venue connectivity.
• Design low-latency, high-throughput systems for real-time market data used by trading systems.
• Contribute to reliability and performance, participating in observability, on-call, and incident response.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code and help raise the quality bar on a lean team.
• Partner with engineers, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver market data capabilities.

Required skills and experience:

• 5+ years of backend engineering, with experience building and maintaining production low-latency systems.
• Hands-on experience with market data systems (feed handlers, normalization, or distribution).
• Proficiency in low-latency Java (or C++) and high-throughput messaging (Aeron, SBE, or similar).
• Familiarity with venue/exchange connectivity and market data protocols (FIX, ITCH/OUCH, multicast).
• Track record delivering features end-to-end and operating what you build.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Position ID: P77881

Pay Transparency Notice:

Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$207,485 - $244,100 USD

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