Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Trading

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer on the Exchange team within Coinbase's Institutional product group, you'll build and operate the real-time trading systems that power Coinbase's institutional exchange: matching engines, order management, market data, and funding rate computation. This team owns the core infrastructure that clears billions of dollars in daily volume for the world's largest financial institutions. You'll write performance-critical code, own system reliability end to end, and ship features that directly expand Coinbase's trading capabilities.

What you'll do

• Build and operate low-latency, event-sourced trading systems spanning matching, order entry, risk, and market data across cloud and colocated environments.
• Own the reliability and correctness of production systems processing high-throughput financial data 24/7, including incident response and failover design.
• Partner with Product, Infrastructure, and senior engineering leadership to translate strategy into quarterly deliverables and well-scoped milestones.
• Drive technical design decisions within your domain, producing clear proposals and building consensus with peers and tech leads.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code in a performance-critical backend environment (Java, C++, or Go), with a focus on latency and throughput.

What you bring

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with hands-on ownership of production trading, exchange, or financial infrastructure systems at scale.
• Deep proficiency in a backend language such as Java, C++, or Go, with experience in JVM or Linux performance tuning for latency-sensitive workloads.
• A track record designing and operating highly reliable distributed systems processing high volumes with strict correctness and uptime requirements (24/7).
• Experience partnering with Product and cross-functional teams to scope and deliver complex technical projects on clear timelines.
• A genuine interest in crypto and institutional markets, with the ability to ramp quickly; deep crypto experience is a plus, not a requirement.

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $186,065-$218,900 USD, depending on work location, plus bonus eligibility
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)
• Remote-first work with quarterly in-person "surge" sessions

About Coinbase

Coinbase is building the world's leading institutional exchange and infrastructure for crypto. The company serves the world's largest financial institutions and is backed by top-tier investors.