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Senior Market Data Engineer
Coinbase · Remote - USA · Posted 62 days ago
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.
- 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.
Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $191,250 — $225,000 USD
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