Join Coinbase as a Sr. Staff Technical Risk Architect to design and own the core trading systems for institutional trading.
Posted by employer 1 month ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
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
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
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 about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze August 22, 2026. Last confirmed on Coinbase's careers page October 9, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 85% of 59 comparable staff backend roles in United States that list Java we track (median $212,000 across 28 companies). See Java salary trends
- Java appears in 22.5% of 307 comparable staff backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Sr. Staff Technical Risk Architect, Unified Trading 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 Trading 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 Trading 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 a Risk Architect on the Trading team, you'll design, build, and own the real-time risk engine at the heart of a unified trading platform: cross-asset user and portfolio risk evaluated in real time on the core trading system that serves our Retail, Prime, and wholesale brokerage customers. It's a rare chance to architect risk 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 real-time, cross-asset risk and margin engine: user and portfolio modeling, multifactor and borrow risk, and cross-portfolio evaluation at scale.
- Design low-latency, high-throughput risk systems, keeping correctness and performance in step with a growing trading platform.
- Drive reliability and performance, owning SLOs, observability, and incident response for risk-critical systems.
- Set the technical bar through code, design reviews, and standards, and pay down the technical debt that matters most.
- Serve as the risk-architecture anchor for the team, mentoring engineers and reducing single-point-of-failure risk.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Trading, Financing/Credit 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 risk 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 a cross-asset risk system (crypto, equities, FCM, or derivatives) with user/portfolio modeling and real-time, cross-portfolio evaluation at scale.
- Deep proficiency in low-latency Java and high-throughput messaging (Aeron, SBE, or similar), designing event-driven, high-availability systems.
- Experience with multifactor and borrow risk, margin, or clearing in a regulated or financial environment where correctness, auditability, and low-latency performance are critical.
- Experience delivering projects end-to-end: scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring, and iteration.
- Experience making decisions that balance engineering trade-offs with end-user quality, demonstrated through shipped products.
- Responsible use of generative AI, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Position ID: P7780
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