Senior Market Data Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p>Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At&nbsp;<a href="https://www.coinbase.com/?utm_campaign=mt_o_m_w_m_m__coi_0_jd-onchain&amp;utm_source=coinbase">Coinbase</a>, 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.”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.coinbase.com/careers">learn more about working at Coinbase</a>.</p></div><p class="mb-2 whitespace-pre-wrap">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 Senior Data Engineer, Market Data on the <a href="https://www.coinbase.com/careers/product-groups" target="_blank">Institutional</a> Markets team, you'll build and operate the systems that capture, normalize, and distribute real-time market data across Coinbase at low latency - the feed handlers, venue connectors, and distribution layer that form the backbone of a unified trading platform.</p> <p class="mb-2 whitespace-pre-wrap"><strong>What you'll do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build and maintain market data components including feed handlers, normalization pipelines, distribution systems, and venue connectivity.</li> <li>Design and implement low-latency, high-throughput services for real-time market data consumed by trading systems across the platform.</li> <li>Drive reliability and performance improvements through observability, on-call participation, and incident response.</li> <li>Write high-quality, well-tested code and contribute to engineering standards on a lean team.</li> <li>Partner with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver market data capabilities that support Coinbase's institutional trading roadmap.</li> </ul> <p class="mb-2 whitespace-pre-wrap"><strong>Required Skills and Experience:</strong></p> <ul> <li>3+ years of backend engineering experience building and maintaining production low-latency systems.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with at least one area of market data infrastructure (feed handlers, normalization, or distribution).</li> <li>Proficiency in low-latency Java (or C++) and familiarity with high-throughp