Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Trading
Own the infrastructure, deployment, and operational tooling for Coinbase’s latency-sensitive institutional trading platform across cloud and colocated environments. The role requires 8+ years of infrastructure, platform, or SRE experience, strong Linux and networking fundamentals, and experience operating regulated, low-latency systems.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own infrastructure, deployment, and operational tooling for latency-sensitive, multi-node trading environments across cloud and on-premises/colocated venues.
- Drive reliability and developer velocity through observability, deployment safety, and incident response for 24/7 systems.
- Establish operational standards, reviews, and automation while reducing single points of failure across the trading stack.
- Partner with trading-platform engineers to make latency-sensitive systems operable and performant.
- Mentor engineers and build team resilience in a lean, high-impact environment.
- Partner with Product, Institutional Markets, and SRE to turn platform needs into a roadmap.
Requirements
- 8+ years of infrastructure, platform, or SRE engineering experience with ownership of production systems at scale.
- Experience running infrastructure for latency-sensitive trading environments, including on-premises/colocated deployments.
- Proficiency with orchestration tooling, containerized and bare-metal deployments, and observability/logging tooling.
- Strong Linux performance and networking fundamentals in latency-critical environments.
- Experience delivering end-to-end infrastructure solutions, including scoping, implementation, deployment safety, monitoring, and incident response.
- Experience in a regulated or financial environment where reliability and low-latency performance are critical.
- Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.
Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary: $218,025–$256,500 USD.
- Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
Skills
Linux, Networking, Kubernetes, Containerization, Bare-Metal Deployments, Observability, Logging, Incident Response, Deployment Automation, Cloud Infrastructure
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