Join Coinbase as a Sr. Staff Technical Risk Architect to design and own the core trading systems for institutional trading.
Role intensity
40% coding
AI in the day-to-day
Responsible use of generative AI, with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.
Requirements
- Experience
- 10+ years
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Sr. Staff Technical Risk Architect will be responsible for designing and managing the architecture of Coinbase's end-to-end trading platform, ensuring high performance and reliability in real-time financial systems. The position requires extensive backend engineering expertise, particularly in low-latency Java and high-throughput messaging, along with a proven track record in architecting complex trading infrastructures. This role is ideal for seasoned professionals with experience in regulated financial environments who are ready to take ownership of critical systems and mentor others. Coinbase's dynamic environment emphasizes collaboration across teams, making it a fittin
Joblaze insights
- Listed 2 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Coinbase's career page.
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- Salary band is above the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$165,000).
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Quick facts
- Is the Sr. Staff Technical Risk Architect, Unified Training role remote?
- It's hybrid — Coinbase expects some on-site time in Remote - USA.
- What's the salary range?
- Coinbase lists $253,895–$298,700 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Sr. Staff Technical Risk Architect, Unified Training role.
- Where is the role based?
- Coinbase is hiring for this position in Remote - USA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Aeron, Java, SBE.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coinbase targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Sr. Staff Technical Risk Architect, Unified Training role at Coinbase.
From the original posting
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
Team/ Role:
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 an Architect on the Trading team, you'll design, build, and own the core trading systems that power Coinbase: order and execution management, algo execution, settlement, multi-venue connectivity, and low-latency messaging that serve our Retail, Prime, and wholesale brokerage customers. It's a rare chance to architect trading infrastructure from the ground up, with the ownership of a startup and the reach of Coinbase.
What you’ll do:
- Own the architecture of the end-to-end trading platform: the sequencer, the low-latency connectivity and messaging fabric, OMS/EMS, multi-venue connectivity, and execution.
- Design low-latency, high-throughput systems for real-time financial products used across institutional and retail markets.
- Drive reliability and performance, owning SLOs, observability, and incident response for systems where correctness and latency are non-negotiable.
- Set the technical bar through code, design reviews, and standards, and pay down the technical debt that matters most.
- Reduce single-point-of-failure risk across the trading stack and build team resilience through mentorship.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Risk, Security, and Compliance to turn technical vision into a roadmap.
Required skills and experience:
- Hands-on architect, able to design, build, deploy, and support 24/7 trading systems that process billions of dollars of transactions daily.
- Extensive backend engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems.
- Track record of architecting an end-to-end trading platform (OMS, front/middle office, multi-exchange connectivity), not just a single gateway.
- Deep proficiency in low-latency Java and high-throughput messaging (Aeron, SBE, or similar), designing event-driven, high-availability systems.
- Experience delivering projects end-to-end: scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring, and iteration.
- Experience building systems in a regulated or financial environment where correctness, auditability, and low-latency performance are critical.
- Experience making user-facing product decisions that balance engineering trade-offs with end-user quality, demonstrated through shipped products.
- Responsible use of generative AI, with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Position ID: P7780
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