Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional - Exchange)

Staff Software Engineer

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.

The Institutional team enables the foundations of Coinbase's institutional business supporting thousands of large financial institutions. We enable institutions to custody their digital assets and participate in the crypto economy in a secure and safe way. We take pride in building a scalable & secure crypto platform supporting hundreds of assets and enabling crypto participation with staking, governance and web3 gateways. The team has interesting work on building cutting-edge crypto technologies, scalable infrastructure and UI surfaces across web, mobile and browser extensions in a fast-paced industry with an opportunity to build several new initiatives. The Markets team within the Institutional Product Group is dedicated to creating top-tier exchange platforms, offering unparalleled low latency and high performance in the crypto trading space. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Markets team, you'll be instrumental in developing and sustaining the core technology that drives our platforms. Collaborating with a talented group of engineers and product managers, you'll deliver institutional-grade systems that empower high-value customers to trade with unmatched speed and efficiency. This role presents the opportunity to tackle complex, unique challenges, bridging the demands of large-scale applications with the precision required for low-latency trading systems. You'll be at the forefront of designing, building, and executing solutions for some of the most impactful and challenging problems in the industry.

What You'll Be Doing

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 to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices

Articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling our core trading systems and the teams running them

Work with engineers, product managers, designers, and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter

Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers

Mentor team members and help uplift the technical bar across the team

What We Look For In You

8+ years of experience in backend software engineering using Java, Golang or similar languages

You've designed, built, scaled and maintained high volume and low latency production services

You've experience in architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact

Passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together

Nice To Haves

You have built order management, risk or matching engines that have high volume and low latency characteristics

Demonstrated experience working with complex distributed systems at scale

You are familiar with developing event driven architectures, GC free coding approaches, performance tuning of OS and networking stacks

Knowledge of AWS infrastructure and tools, as well as containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes

You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size)

You have experience with Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.)

You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices

You've worked with Java, Golang, Docker, Postgres, Container Orchestration systems and AWS based technologies

Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services

Pay Range : $211,650$249,000 USD