Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional - Exchange)

Details

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. The Institutional Markets team builds top-tier Exchange platforms focused on low-latency, high-performance crypto trading for institutional customers. This role is focused on architecting, building, and operating core trading platform components that handle connectivity, market data, trade execution, clearing and settlement.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement core trading platform components responsible for connectivity, market data, trade execution, clearing and settlement using Java, Golang and similar technologies.
• Design scalable, low-latency, garbage-free systems using modern cloud technologies and industry best practices.
• Articulate a long-term vision for maintaining and scaling core trading systems and the teams running them.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and senior leadership to turn product and technical vision into a quarterly roadmap.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code to meet customer needs.
• Mentor team members and raise the technical bar across the team.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in backend software engineering using Java, Golang, or similar languages.
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining high-volume, low-latency production services.
• Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact.
• Passion for building an open financial system and working in a fast-paced, high-expectation environment.

Nice to haves

• Experience building order management, risk, or matching engines with high-volume, low-latency characteristics.
• Demonstrated experience with complex distributed systems at scale.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and GC-free coding approaches.
• Experience with performance tuning of OS and networking stacks.
• Knowledge of AWS infrastructure and tools, containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience with decomposing monoliths into microservices.
• Experience with blockchain technologies (Bitcoin, Ethereum), interacting with onchain activity (addresses, ENS, dApps).
• Experience with Java, Golang, Docker, Postgres, container orchestration systems, and AWS-based technologies.

Benefits

• Target annual salary plus target bonus, target equity, and benefits (medical, dental, vision).
• Extended health care, dental, vision, life & accident insurance, disability coverage.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), wellness stipend, mobile/internet reimbursement, connections stipend.
• Learning & development allowance, employee assistance program, travel medical policy, fertility benefits, generous time off/leave policy.

Additional information

• In-person participation is required throughout the year for team and company-wide offsites (role is remote-first but not remote-only).
• Job ID: GIBE06US
• Pay Range: $217,900 — $217,900 USD
• Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate onchain experience.