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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. As a Risk Architect on the Trading team, you'll design, build, and own the real-time risk engine at the heart of a unified trading platform: cross-asset user and portfolio risk evaluated in real time on the core trading system that serves our Retail, Prime, and wholesale brokerage customers. It's a rare chance 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.
Required skills and experience:
- 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.
- Track record of 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 (Aeron, SBE, or similar), 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.
- Experience making decisions that balance engineering trade-offs with end-user quality, demonstrated 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.
Position ID: P77879
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Skills Required
- Hands-on architecture experience designing, building, deploying, and supporting 24/7 risk systems processing billions of dollars in daily transactions
- Extensive backend engineering experience owning complex, production-grade distributed systems
- Experience architecting a cross-asset risk system involving crypto, equities, FCM, or derivatives
- Experience with user and portfolio modeling and real-time cross-portfolio evaluation at scale
- Deep proficiency in low-latency Java
- Experience with high-throughput messaging such as Aeron, SBE, or similar technologies
- Experience designing event-driven, highly available systems
- Experience with multifactor risk, borrow risk, margin, or clearing in a regulated or financial environment
- Experience balancing correctness, auditability, and low-latency performance
- Experience delivering projects end-to-end, including scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring, and iteration
- Experience making engineering trade-off decisions that improve end-user quality through shipped products
- Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight
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Crypto creates economic freedom by ensuring that people can participate fairly in the economy, and Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people. We’re updating the century-old financial system by providing a trusted platform that makes it easy for people and institutions to engage with crypto assets, including trading, staking, safekeeping, spending, and fast, free global transfers. We also provide critical infrastructure for onchain activity and support builders who share our vision that onchain is the new online. And together with the crypto community, we advocate for responsible rules to make the benefits of crypto available around the world.
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We have the opportunity to accelerate the pace of innovation in the world by building an open financial system. Our vision is to create more economic freedom in the world, to help people control their own wealth, start companies, have financial privacy, and participate in the global economy. And to get us there, we focus, build and move as a team.
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