Coinbase
Sr. Staff Technical Architect, Unified Trading
$254K–$299K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 20, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
US - Remote Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only) - Experience
- No number of years specified.
About the job
Architects, builds, and owns Coinbase’s end-to-end trading platform for institutional and retail markets, including order and execution management, venue connectivity, and low-latency messaging.
What you'll do
- Own the architecture of the trading platform and design low-latency, high-throughput systems.
- Drive reliability, performance, observability, SLOs, and incident response; set technical standards and reduce technical debt and single points of failure.
- Partner with Product, Risk, Security, and Compliance on the roadmap, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Hands-on ability to design, build, deploy, and support 24/7 trading systems processing billions of dollars in daily transactions.
- Extensive backend engineering experience and ownership of complex production distributed systems; track record architecting an end-to-end trading platform.
- Deep proficiency in low-latency Java and high-throughput messaging such as Aeron or SBE; experience with event-driven, high-availability systems.
- Experience delivering projects end-to-end, building in regulated or financial environments, making user-facing product decisions, and responsibly using generative AI with human oversight.
Pay
$253,895 — $298,700 USD (annual base salary)
Tools
Java, Aeron, SBE
AI focus
Use generative AI responsibly, with human oversight, to produce business-ready outputs and measurable workflow-efficiency, cost, and quality improvements.
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