Sr. Staff Technical Architect, Unified Trading

As a Sr. Staff Technical Architect, Unified Trading at Coinbase, you'll design, build, and own the real-time risk engine at the heart of a unified trading platform. You'll architect cross-asset user and portfolio risk evaluated in real time on the core trading system serving Retail, Prime, and wholesale brokerage customers. This is an opportunity to architect risk infrastructure from the ground up with the ownership of a startup and the reach of Coinbase.

What you'll do

• Own the architecture of the real-time, cross-asset risk and margin engine: user and portfolio modeling, multifactor and borrow risk, and cross-portfolio evaluation at scale
• Design low-latency, high-throughput risk systems, keeping correctness and performance in step with a growing trading platform
• Drive reliability and performance, owning SLOs, observability, and incident response for risk-critical systems
• Set the technical bar through code, design reviews, and standards, and pay down the technical debt that matters most
• Serve as the risk-architecture anchor for the team, mentoring engineers and reducing single-point-of-failure risk
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Trading, Financing/Credit Risk, Security, and Compliance to turn technical vision into a roadmap

What you bring

• Hands-on architect able to design, build, deploy, and support 24/7 risk systems that process billions of dollars of transactions daily
• Extensive backend engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems
• A track record architecting a cross-asset risk system (crypto, equities, FCM, or derivatives) with user/portfolio modeling and real-time, cross-portfolio evaluation at scale
• Deep proficiency in low-latency Java and high-throughput messaging such as Aeron or SBE, designing event-driven, high-availability systems
• Experience with multifactor and borrow risk, margin, or clearing in a regulated or financial environment where correctness, auditability, and low-latency performance are critical
• Experience delivering projects end-to-end: scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring, and iteration
• A demonstrated ability to make decisions that balance engineering trade-offs with end-user quality through shipped products
• Responsible use of generative AI, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $253,895-$298,700 USD, varying by location
• Total compensation includes equity and bonus eligibility
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)
• Remote-first working model with quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges"

About Coinbase

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Everything Exchange, powering the systems that let the world's largest financial institutions trade across markets with speed, depth, and trust.