Coinbase
Sr. Staff Technical Risk Architect, Unified Trading
$254K–$299K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 21, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
US - Remote Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only) - Experience
- Extensive backend engineering experience; no specific number of years stated.
About the job
Architect, build, and own a real-time cross-asset risk and margin engine for Coinbase’s unified institutional trading platform.
What you'll do
- Design and operate low-latency, high-throughput risk systems, including reliability, performance, observability, and incident response.
- Set engineering standards through code and design reviews, mentor engineers, and reduce technical debt and single-point-of-failure risk.
- Partner with Product, Trading, Financing/Credit Risk, Security, and Compliance to deliver the technical roadmap.
What they ask for
- Hands-on ability to design, build, deploy, and support 24/7 risk systems processing billions of dollars of transactions daily.
- Extensive backend engineering experience owning complex production-grade distributed systems, including a track record architecting a cross-asset risk system with real-time user/portfolio and cross-portfolio evaluation.
- Deep proficiency in low-latency Java and high-throughput messaging such as Aeron, SBE, or similar; experience designing event-driven, highly available systems.
- Experience with multifactor and borrow risk, margin, or clearing in a regulated or financial environment; end-to-end project delivery and responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.
Pay
$253,895 — $298,700 USD (annual base salary; excluding equity and bonus)
Tools
Java, Aeron, SBE
AI focus
Use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to produce business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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