Staff Data Engineer (Market Data)

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 Market Data Engineer on the 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

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

Contribute to reliability and performance, participating in observability, on-call, and incident response

Write high-quality, well-tested code and help raise the quality bar on a lean team

Partner with engineers, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver market data capabilities- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

5+ years of backend engineering, with experience building and maintaining production low-latency systems

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

Proficiency in low-latency Java (or C++) and high-throughput messaging (Aeron, SBE, or similar)

Hands-on experience with market data systems (feed handlers, normalization, or distribution)