Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional - Exchange, Market Data & Analytics)

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Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.

While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

As a key member of our team, you’ll play a critical role in building and operating a large scale data platform to store, analyse and distribute both historical and real-time data for multiple crypto exchanges. You’ll take ownership of architecture, engineering and runtime of the data warehouse to service numerous critical solutions for both internal and external data consumption, strengthening our position as a global leader in digital asset trading.

Responsibilities

• Build and run a critical data platform: database management, data pipelining, scaling and data distribution to APIs and frontend solutions.
• Design and implement core trading platform components, market data and derived data solutions; enable new products and order types.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers and senior leadership to turn vision into tangible quarterly deliverables.
• Ingest, manage and deliver internal and external crypto data for client access, frontend display and large scale analytics.
• Provide support to Exchange operations and other engineering teams.
• Mentor team members and help uplift the technical skill set across the team.

Requirements

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining production services; knowledge of composing a service-oriented architecture.
• Ability to write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of customers.
• Passion for building an open financial system and working with crypto/blockchain-related products.

Nice to haves

• Experience through rapid company growth (startup to mid-size).
• Experience with SQL, ClickHouse, Java, Kotlin, Python.
• Experience building low-latency trading systems.
• Experience building financial, high-reliability systems.

Job #: P71272

Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience.

Pay Range: $186,005 — $218,900 USD (full time offers also include target bonus + target equity + benefits)

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision plans with generous employee contributions.
• Health Savings Account with company contributions.
• Disability and life insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Wellness stipend, mobile/internet reimbursement, connections stipend.
• Volunteer time off, fertility counseling and benefits.
• Generous time off/leave policy.
• The option of getting paid in digital currency.

Additional notes

• Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Some roles may use pilot AI tools for screening interviews; human review is performed for decisions.