Trading Infrastructure Lead — Latency-Sensitive Systems

Coinbase; United States; Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You'll work to keep latency-sensitive environments fast and reliable, mentor engineers, and partner with Product, Institutional Markets, and SRE to shape the roadmap.

This remote-first role includes quarterly in-person surges and a base salary range reflected in the posting.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure, platform, or SRE with production ownership.
• Experience with latency-sensitive trading environments including on-prem deployments.
• Strong orchestration tooling and observability skills.
• Proficient in Linux performance and networking for latency-critical systems.
• End-to-end delivery: scoping, deploy safety, monitoring, and incident response.
• Experience in regulated or financial environments.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.

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

On-prem and cloud deployments

Orchestration tooling

Containerized and baremetal

Observability

Linux performance

Networking fundamentals

End-to-end delivery

Regulated/financial experience

Responsible AI usage

Job description

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

You'll work to keep latency-sensitive environments fast and reliable, mentor engineers, and partner with Product, Institutional Markets, and SRE to shape the roadmap.

This remote-first role includes quarterly in-person surges and a base salary range reflected in the posting.