Coinbase
Senior Network Engineer
$186K–$219K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
US - Remote Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only) - Experience
- 8+ years; network, infrastructure, or SRE engineering experience.
About the job
Owns and operates low-latency network and data-center infrastructure for Coinbase’s institutional trading platform across cloud and colocated environments.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain routing, multicast market-data, high-availability, firewall, and secure-connectivity architectures.
- Lead production changes, incident response, failover testing, observability, automation, and on-call operations.
- Coordinate with engineering and trading teams, mentor engineers, and improve reliability and developer velocity.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of network, infrastructure, or SRE engineering experience, including production ownership in financial services, electronic trading, or another latency-sensitive environment with on-prem/colocated deployments.
- Hands-on expertise with multicast networking, BGP, OSPF, VRFs, high-availability architectures, low-latency data-center switching, and physical network infrastructure.
- Ability to lead production trading-system incident response, manage change risk, and coordinate resolution during market events.
- Experience with Fortinet or Palo Alto firewalls, VPNs, SNMP or gRPC telemetry, Python or Ansible automation, and Linux networking fundamentals.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with exchange or electronic trading system concepts.
- Deep crypto experience.
Pay
$186,065 — $218,900 USD (annual base salary; excluding equity and bonus)
Tools
BGP, OSPF, VRFs, PIM, IGMP, Arista MLAG, Cisco vPC, VRRP
AI focus
Use generative AI responsibly, with human oversight, to produce business-ready outputs and measurably improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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