Staff Infra Engineer, Latency Trading Platform Remote-First

Coinbase; Olympia (WA); 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 infrastructure, deployment, and operational tooling across cloud and on‑prem, ensuring latency-sensitive, multi‑node trading environments stay fast and reliable.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive reliability and velocity, set standards, and collaborate with Product, Institutional Markets, and SRE to transform platform needs into a roadmap for a scalable, high-performance

Qualifications

• 8+ years of infrastructure, platform, or SRE engineering with production ownership.
• Experience running infrastructure for latency-sensitive trading environments, including on‑prem/colocated deployments.
• Deep 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 where reliability and low-latency performance are critical.
• Uses generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements.

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 ownership

Latency-sensitive infra

Orchestration tooling

Linux networking

End-to-end delivery

Financial industry experience

AI governance

Tools

Kubernetes

Containerization

Bare metal deployments

Observability tooling

Logging tooling

DevOps tooling

Job description

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading on the Exchange platform. As an Infrastructure Lead, you will own the infrastructure, deployment, and operational tooling across cloud and on‑prem, ensuring latency-sensitive, multi‑node trading environments stay fast and reliable.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive reliability and velocity, set standards, and collaborate with Product, Institutional Markets, and SRE to transform platform needs into a roadmap for a scalable, high-performance