Staff Data Engineer, Market Data
Remote - USA
- Pay
USD 207,485–244,100/year · BaseExcludes bonus, equity — pay source
Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $207,485—$244,100 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 Staff Data Engineer, Market Data on the Institutional Markets team, you'll architect, build, and own the systems that generate, capture, normalize, and distribute real-time market data across Coinbase at low latency - the ticker plant and distribution backbone of a unified trading platform - while leading a lean, high-impact team. It's a rare chance to architect market data infrastructure from the ground up, with the ownership of a startup and the reach of Coinbase.
Listed location: Remote - USA
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What you’ll work on
Full postingBuild and operate feed handlers, normalization, distribution, and venue connectivity
Design low-latency, high-throughput systems for real-time market data
Strengthen reliability through observability, on-call, and incident response
Write well-tested code and raise the quality bar on a lean team
Partner with engineers, product, and stakeholders to deliver market data capabilities
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Build and operate market data components: feed handlers, normalization, distribution, and venue connectivity.
Design low-latency, high-throughput systems for real-time market data used by trading systems.
Strengthen reliability and performance by contributing to observability, on-call, and incident response.
Write high-quality, well-tested code and raise the quality bar on a lean team.
Partner with engineers, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver market data capabilities.
Tools in this posting
- C++
- Java
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- Hands-on experience with market data systems (feed handlers, normalization, or distribution). - Proficiency in low-latency Java (or C++) and high-throughput messaging (Aeron, SBE, or similar). - Familiarity with venue/exchange connectivity and market data protocols (FIX, ITCH/OUCH, multicast).
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Job description
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 Staff Data Engineer, Market Data on the Institutional Markets team, you'll architect, build, and own the systems that generate, capture, normalize, and distribute real-time market data across Coinbase at low latency - the ticker plant and distribution backbone of a unified trading platform - while leading a lean, high-impact team. It's a rare chance to architect market data infrastructure from the ground up, with the ownership of a startup and the reach of Coinbase.
What you'll do:
- Build and operate market data components: feed handlers, normalization, distribution, and venue connectivity.
- Design low-latency, high-throughput systems for real-time market data used by trading systems.
- Strengthen reliability and performance by contributing to observability, on-call, and incident response.
- Write high-quality, well-tested code and raise the quality bar on a lean team.
- Partner with engineers, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver market data capabilities.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of backend engineering, with experience building and maintaining production low-latency systems.
- Hands-on experience with market data systems (feed handlers, normalization, or distribution).
- Proficiency in low-latency Java (or C++) and high-throughput messaging (Aeron, SBE, or similar).
- Familiarity with venue/exchange connectivity and market data protocols (FIX, ITCH/OUCH, multicast).
- Track record delivering features end-to-end and operating what you build.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Position ID: P77881
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)).
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $207,485—$244,100 USD Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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