Staff Infra Engineer - Latency-Sensitive Trading (Remote)

Coinbase; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading on the Exchange platform. As an Infrastructure Lead, you will own the deployment, observability, and operational tooling across cloud and on-prem environments, enabling latency-sensitive, multi-node systems to run reliably at scale.

This role combines startup ownership with Coinbase’s reach, requires mentoring engineers, partnering with product and SRE, and driving improvements in workflow efficiency, risk reduction, and system resilience.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of infra, 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 and containerized/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 regulated or financial environments where reliability and low-latency performance are critical.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.

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 across a lean, high-impact environment.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Institutional Markets, and SRE to turn platform needs into a roadmap.

Skills

Infrastructure

SRE

Latency-sensitive

On-prem/Colo

Orchestration tooling

Containerization

Linux networking

End-to-end delivery

Regulated finance

Generative AI

Job description

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading on the Exchange platform. As an Infrastructure Lead, you will own the deployment, observability, and operational tooling across cloud and on-prem environments, enabling latency-sensitive, multi-node systems to run reliably at scale.

This role combines startup ownership with Coinbase’s reach, requires mentoring engineers, partnering with product and SRE, and driving improvements in workflow efficiency, risk reduction, and system resilience.