Staff Infra Engineer - Latency-Sensitive Trading

Jackalope Digital LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking an Infrastructure Lead for the Exchange team to own the infrastructure, deployment, and operational tooling behind a unified trading platform across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will drive reliability, observability, and incident response for 24/7 systems, and set standards to reduce single points of failure while mentoring engineers and partnering with cross-functional teams to turn platform needs into a roadmap.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of infrastructure, platform, or SRE engineering with ownership of production systems at scale.
• Experience running infrastructure for latency-sensitive trading environments, including on-prem/colocated deployments.
• Proficiency with orchestration tooling, containerized and baremetal deployments, and observability/logging tooling.
• Strong Linux performance and networking fundamentals in latency-critical environments.
• Experience delivering end-to-end: scoping, implementation, deploy safety, monitoring, and incident response.
• Experience in a regulated or financial environment with reliability and low-latency requirements.
• Ability to responsibly apply generative AI with human oversight to improve workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure, deployment, and operational tooling for latency-sensitive, multi-node trading environments across cloud and on-prem.
• Drive reliability and developer velocity, owning observability, deploy safety, and incident response for systems that run 24/7.
• Set the operational bar through standards, reviews, and automation, and reduce single-point-of-failure risk across the trading stack.
• Partner with engineers building the trading platform to make latency-sensitive systems operable and performant.
• Mentor engineers and build team resilience in a lean, high-impact environment.
• Collaborate with Product, Institutional Markets, and SRE to turn platform needs into a roadmap.

Skills

Infrastructure ownership

Production systems at scale

Latency-sensitive trading environments

Orchestration tooling

Containerized deployments

Baremetal deployments

Observability/logging tooling

Linux performance

Networking fundamentals

End-to-end delivery

Regulated/financial reliability

Generative AI with oversight

Tools

Kubernetes

Observability tools

Logging tooling

Job description

Coinbase is seeking an Infrastructure Lead for the Exchange team to own the infrastructure, deployment, and operational tooling behind a unified trading platform across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will drive reliability, observability, and incident response for 24/7 systems, and set standards to reduce single points of failure while mentoring engineers and partnering with cross-functional teams to turn platform needs into a roadmap.