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Senior Market Data Engineer

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Senior Market Data Engineer in USA

  • Coinbase
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain market data components including feed handlers, normalization pipelines, distribution systems, and venue connectivity.
  • Design and implement low-latency, high-throughput services for real-time market data consumed by trading systems.
  • Improve reliability and performance through observability, on-call participation, and incident response.
  • Write high-quality, well-tested code and contribute to engineering standards.
  • Partner with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver institutional trading capabilities.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of backend engineering experience building and maintaining production low-latency systems.
  • Hands-on experience with market data infrastructure such as feed handlers, normalization, or distribution.
  • Proficiency in low-latency Java or C++ and familiarity with Aeron, SBE, or similar high-throughput messaging frameworks.
  • Familiarity with venue or exchange connectivity and market data protocols including FIX, ITCH/OUCH, and multicast.
  • Experience shipping features end-to-end and operating systems in production.
  • Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Benefits

  • Remote-first, but not remote-only, work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called surges.
  • Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
  • Potential equity and bonus eligibility in addition to base salary.

Salary: $191k - $225k/yr

Coinbase

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world. The most trusted crypto platform, Coinbase stores more digital assets than any other company and is building the everything exchange — one place to access crypto, equities, derivatives, prediction markets, and more...

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