Coinbase

Senior Market Data Engineer

Remote - USA

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Pay: USD 191,250–225,000/year · BaseExcludes bonus, equity — pay source
Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $191,250—$225,000 USD Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase. Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Everything Exchange, powering the systems that let the world's largest financial institutions trade across markets with speed, depth, and trust. As a Senior Data Engineer, Market Data on the Institutional Markets team, you'll build and operate the systems that capture, normalize, and distribute real-time market data across Coinbase at low latency - the feed handlers, venue connectors, and distribution layer that form the backbone of a unified trading platform.
Listed location: Remote - USA
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Build and maintain feed handlers, normalization pipelines, distribution systems, and venue connectivity
Design low-latency, high-throughput services for real-time market data used by trading systems
Improve reliability and performance through observability, on-call work, and incident response
Write well-tested code and contribute to engineering standards on a lean team

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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 across the platform.

Drive reliability and performance improvements through observability, on-call participation, and incident response.

Write high-quality, well-tested code and contribute to engineering standards on a lean team.

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- Hands-on experience with at least one area of market data infrastructure (feed handlers, normalization, or distribution). - Proficiency in low-latency Java (or C++) and familiarity with high-throughput messaging frameworks (Aeron, SBE, or similar). - Familiarity with venue/exchange connectivity and market data protocols (FIX, ITCH/OUCH, multicast).

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We file this job under Data Engineer, by the work the posting describes.

Data engineers build and run the pipelines that copy data out of apps and outside services into a warehouse or lake, and fix them when a source changes or a load fails.

Expect SQL, Python, a cloud platform, a scheduler such as Airflow, and often tools for large data such as Spark or Kafka.

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Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Everything Exchange, powering the systems that let the world's largest financial institutions trade across markets with speed, depth, and trust. As a Senior Data Engineer, Market Data on the Institutional Markets team, you'll build and operate the systems that capture, normalize, and distribute real-time market data across Coinbase at low latency - the feed handlers, venue connectors, and distribution layer that form the backbone of a unified trading platform.

What you'll do:

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 across the platform.
Drive reliability and performance improvements through observability, on-call participation, and incident response.
Write high-quality, well-tested code and contribute to engineering standards on a lean team.
Partner with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver market data capabilities that support Coinbase's institutional trading roadmap.

Required Skills and Experience:

3+ years of backend engineering experience building and maintaining production low-latency systems.
Hands-on experience with at least one area of market data infrastructure (feed handlers, normalization, or distribution).
Proficiency in low-latency Java (or C++) and familiarity with high-throughput messaging frameworks (Aeron, SBE, or similar).
Familiarity with venue/exchange connectivity and market data protocols (FIX, ITCH/OUCH, multicast).
Track record shipping features end-to-end and operating what you build in production.
Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$191,250—$225,000 USD

Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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