Trading Infrastructure Lead – Latency‑Sensitive Systems

Coinbase; Carson City (NV); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Institutional Everything Exchange. As an Infrastructure Lead on the Exchange team, you'll own the infrastructure, deployment, and operational tooling behind a unified trading platform that runs across cloud and on-prem/colocated venues, keeping latency-sensitive environments fast and reliable.

You will mentor engineers, shape the roadmap with cross-functional partners, and ensure rigorous standards for deploy safety,

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure, platform, or SRE with ownership of production systems at scale.
• Experience running infrastructure for latency-sensitive trading environments, including on-prem/colocated deployments.
• Proficient 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.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

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

Infra ownership

Latency trading

Orchestration tooling

Linux networking

Observability

End-to-end delivery

Regulated environment

AI responsibly

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Institutional Everything Exchange. As an Infrastructure Lead on the Exchange team, you'll own the infrastructure, deployment, and operational tooling behind a unified trading platform that runs across cloud and on-prem/colocated venues, keeping latency-sensitive environments fast and reliable.

You will mentor engineers, shape the roadmap with cross-functional partners, and ensure rigorous standards for deploy safety,