Staff Data Engineer, Market Data

Coinbase is building the future of finance and institutional trading through systems that enable financial institutions to trade across markets with speed, depth, and trust. The Staff Data Engineer will architect, build, and own low-latency systems that generate, capture, normalize, and distribute real-time market data while leading a lean, high-impact team.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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