Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional - Markets)

Remote US
USD 180k - 212k
Java Go PostgreSQL SQL MongoDB Microservices Docker Oracle Kubernetes
Description

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.

The Coinbase Exchange (CBE) team is responsible for developing and managing the core services of the US Spot Exchange platform, including Matching Engines, OMS, FIX, and MD gateways as well as an ecosystem of products such as Lending, USDC trading, and RFQ, that are very critical to enabling numerous internal products and serving thousands of institutional and retail customers, both directly and indirectly. Our team tackles some of the most demanding scale and performance challenges, spurred by a near 5x increase in trading volumes due to the dynamic Crypto market landscape, as we continuously strive to refine the platform's latency down to the microsecond. 

Currently, we are also pioneering the future of Exchange by redesigning many essential services using low-latency, event-driven architectures, and garbage collection-free coding practices while executing our diverse product roadmap. This role, as part of the Trading Systems team within CBE, will play a key role in both enhancing our current offerings as well as shaping future architectural advancements.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

  • Build and enhance services to meet critical product and business needs using Java, Golang and RDS Postgres.
  • Design scalable high volume and low-latency systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
  • Work with other engineers, designers and product managers to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.
  • Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
  • Maintain production services and Database infrastructure

What we look for in you: 

  • You have at least 5 years of experience in software engineering.
  • You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained critical low-latency production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
  • You’ve good awareness of at least one of the major SQL or No-SQL databases - Postgres, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB; and interest in optimizing and maintaining them
  • You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.

Nice to haves:

  • You have built trading systems or matching engines that have high volume and low latency characteristics
  • You are familiar with developing event driven architectures, GC free coding approaches
  • You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size).
  • You have interest in the End-to-End services infrastructure inc
  • You have experience with Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..)
  • You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices.
  • You’ve worked with Golang, Java, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres and MongoDB.
  • You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems.

Job #: GIBE05US

 

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
Pay Range:
$180,625$212,000 USD

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

Coinbase is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.  For US applicants, you may view the Know Your Rights notice here.  Additionally, Coinbase participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. 

Coinbase is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact us at accommodations[at]coinbase.com to let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.  For quick access to screen reading technology compatible with this site click here to download a free compatible screen reader (free step by step tutorial can be found here).

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