# Staff Data Engineer, Market Data

**Company**: Coinbase
**Location**: Remote - USA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $207,485-$244,100 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

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.”

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.

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.

- 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.

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.

Benefits:

- Base salary varies by location (see range below).

- Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $207,485-$244,100 USD

## Skills

### Required
- backend engineering
- low-latency systems
- market data systems
- Java
- C++
- high-throughput messaging
- Aeron
- SBE
- venue/exchange connectivity
- market data protocols

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