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

Details

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. We are building an onchain platform and the future global financial system. We’re looking for someone passionate about crypto and blockchain, eager to solve hard problems, welcome feedback, and collaborate with high-caliber colleagues. Our work culture is intense; many roles are remote-first but not remote-only — in-person participation is required throughout the year, with team and company-wide offsites held multiple times annually.

The Institutional Product Group supports Coinbase's institutional business, enabling custody and participation in the crypto economy for thousands of large financial institutions. The team builds scalable, secure crypto platform features across staking, governance, web3 gateways, and UI surfaces across web, mobile and browser extensions. The Market Data Analytics team builds and operates a large-scale data platform to store, analyze, and distribute historical and real-time data for multiple crypto exchanges and service internal and external consumers.

Responsibilities

• Build and run a critical data platform including 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.
• 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.
• Own architecture, engineering, and runtime of the data warehouse to service critical solutions for internal and external consumption.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and senior leadership to deliver on quarterly roadmaps.
• Mentor team members and uplift technical skills across the team.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services and composing a service-oriented architecture.
• Strong software engineering practices: writing high-quality, well-tested code.
• Passion for building an open financial system and working in the crypto/blockchain domain.

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.

Pay and Benefits

• Pay Range: $186,005—$218,900 USD (target annual salary; full-time offers also include bonus eligibility, equity eligibility, and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)).
• Benefits include medical/dental/vision, HSA with company contributions, disability and life insurance, 401(k) with match, wellness stipend, mobile/internet reimbursement, connections stipend, volunteer time off, fertility counseling and benefits, generous time off/leave policy, and option to get paid in digital currency.

Work Arrangement & Other Notes

• #LI-Remote — remote-first role with required in-person participation throughout the year for team and company offsites.
• Pay transparency notice and global candidate privacy notices provided.
• Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
• AI Disclosure: Coinbase is piloting AI tools for interviewing/transcription in select roles; these pilots are for testing and not used to make employment decisions.