Jobs at Coinbase

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Build and operate low-latency market data systems for institutional trading, including feed handlers, normalization pipelines, venue connectivity, and distribution services. Develop high-throughput services, improve reliability and performance through observability and incident response, participate in on-call support, and collaborate with engineering and product teams. The role requires production backend engineering experience, market data infrastructure expertise, Java or C++, messaging frameworks, and exchange connectivity protocols.

Owns and optimizes resilient, ultra-low-latency network and physical data-center infrastructure for institutional trading across cloud and on-premises environments. Designs routing, multicast, segmentation, firewall, VPN, telemetry, and automation systems. Leads production changes, incident response, failover testing, maintenance, and on-call support for 24/7 trading platforms. Mentors engineers and partners with SRE, product, and trading-system teams to improve reliability and developer velocity.

Leads a team of 5–10 engineers building real-time market data and analytics infrastructure for trading systems. Owns technical strategy and roadmap, drives delivery, ensures data accuracy, reliability, low latency, and scalability, and partners with Product and engineering teams. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, developing senior engineers, maintaining engineering standards, and delivering index pricing, market data ingestion and distribution, and funding rate computation systems.

Leads architecture and hands-on engineering across a futures commission merchant platform, including market data, order routing, settlement, reporting, risk, and liquidation. Drives replatforming away from legacy vendors, improves reliability and technical quality, partners with product, risk, operations, finance, and compliance, and mentors engineers. Requires extensive backend distributed-systems experience, direct FCM or derivatives expertise, regulated-finance experience, and proficiency in Go, Java, or similar technologies.

Build and operate low-latency, event-sourced trading infrastructure for Coinbase’s institutional exchange, including matching engines, order management, risk, market data, and funding systems. Own reliability, correctness, incident response, and failover for high-throughput 24/7 production systems. Drive technical designs, collaborate cross-functionally on milestones, and write highly tested performance-critical backend code in Java, C++, or Go.

Design and build reliable backend services and integrations for Coinbase’s Unified Merge Gate. Lead automated code review, policy evaluation, CI evidence, authorization, merge controls, repository migrations, safe rollouts, observability, and operational ownership. Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and engineering teams to improve software review and deployment workflows while measuring merge quality, review volume, time-to-merge, and escaped defects.

Own and operate the production threat intelligence platform, maintaining system health, monitoring jobs, and ensuring data quality. Build intelligence-feed integrations, enrichment, tagging, and lifecycle workflows. Deliver intelligence to detections, blocklists, warehouses, and agent workflows. Partner with Security and Product stakeholders to translate requirements into technical capabilities, troubleshoot production issues, and implement durable fixes. Develop production-quality software using Python, Go, or Storm with CI/CD ownership, while responsibly applying generative AI.

Own end-to-end frontend development for core crypto payment flows across web and mobile. Improve latency, availability, and SLOs; build user-facing features (contacts, real-time transaction status); identify and fix performance bottlenecks; partner with product/design/backend; mentor junior engineers to reduce customer friction at scale.

Own and lead Coinbase’s developer infrastructure platforms, including CI, build systems, and deployment orchestration. Set technical direction for complex cross-team initiatives, improve build and deployment performance, manage reliability and observability, and drive platform migrations and adoption. Partner with engineering leaders, operate production systems, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable tools used across the organization.

Define the technical vision and multi-quarter strategy for Coinbase’s FinHub financial infrastructure. Architect scalable ledger and money-movement primitives across fiat and crypto, ensuring double-entry accounting, idempotency, reconciliation, auditability, reliability, and safe failure recovery. Lead complex cross-team architectural initiatives, collaborate with finance, risk, compliance, and operations stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers while improving system design and operational excellence.

Own Coinbase’s end-to-end privacy incident management program, serving as incident commander for personal-data incidents. Coordinate triage, investigation, remediation, escalations, notification workflows, retrospectives, metrics, and process improvements across Privacy, Legal, Security, Product, Engineering, and Communications. Maintain on-call readiness, build automation, analyze cloud-native environments using SQL and Python, and support privacy initiatives involving global regulations, privacy controls, and responsible generative AI use.

Lead the technical vision and architecture of Coinbase’s FinHub financial infrastructure, including ledger, account balances, money movement, settlements, transfers, and transaction history. Drive distributed-system rearchitecture with double-entry accounting, idempotency, reconciliation, auditability, and resilient failure recovery. Lead cross-team initiatives, migrations, and technical strategy while partnering with product, finance, risk, compliance, and operations stakeholders. Mentor senior engineers and promote operational excellence and maintainability.

Own UK financial promotions and asset listings approval workflows, lead product governance for UK launches, build and scale regulated operational processes, produce senior governance reporting, and partner with Customer Experience to improve onboarding and support. Maintain audit-ready controls and use generative AI responsibly to improve efficiency.

Lead second-line technology and security risk advisory coverage across critical domains, evaluating risk exposure, control effectiveness, policy alignment, and emerging issues. Partner with engineering and security teams to improve control design and risk outcomes, coordinate remediation across risk and audit functions, communicate risk tradeoffs, and manage and coach technology risk analysts.

Architect and develop security platform services supporting secrets and key management, identity and access management, onchain security, policy and risk management, and vulnerability management. Define technical roadmaps, build scalable cloud systems using Go or Java, manage project deliverables, mentor engineers, review designs, and maintain backend systems. The role requires solving complex technical problems, ensuring security and operational integrity, and collaborating with engineering, product, design, and leadership teams.

Architect and deliver distributed backend systems and infrastructure supporting customer service and KYC compliance workflows. Set technical direction, define roadmaps, lead end-to-end project delivery, mentor engineers, and build reliable high-scale services using Go, gRPC, TypeScript, React, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps tooling. Partner across teams and time zones to improve platform capabilities, workflow efficiency, cost, quality, customer satisfaction, and compliance outcomes.

Architect and develop scalable security platform services using Golang or Java. Define technical roadmaps, manage projects, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, write and review well-tested code, debug complex backend systems, improve operational reliability, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on security, compliance, privacy, secrets and key management, identity access management, vulnerabilities, and onchain security capabilities.

Build AI-driven security scanners and automation for vulnerability discovery, triage, validation, and remediation. Red team internal AI systems through jailbreak, prompt injection, and tool abuse testing. Partner with engineering teams to remediate vulnerabilities, verify fixes, and improve bug bounty and incident response workflows. Mentor junior security engineers on AI-augmented offensive security practices.

Lead accounting and reporting for Coinbase’s tokenized equities business. Build accounting policies, GL operations, controls, regulatory reporting, finance systems, and close processes from the ground up. Own FSRA compliance and issuer-entity reporting, including IFRS financial statements and audits. Analyze complex transactions under US GAAP and IFRS, validate ledger structures and reconciliations, and coordinate with Product, Engineering, Legal, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, auditors, and regulators.