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Sr. Staff Technical Risk Architect, Unified Trading

Coinbase· Trading
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Remote$253.9k - $298.7kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Risk Architect responsible for designing, building, and owning the real-time cross-asset risk engine within Coinbase’s unified trading platform, serving Retail, Prime, and wholesale brokerage customers. Remote-first role with in-person surges.

Responsibilities

  • 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, ensuring correctness and performance 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 reduce critical debt.
  • 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 translate vision into a roadmap.

Qualifications

  • Hands-on architect capable of designing, building, deploying, and supporting 24/7 risk systems processing billions of dollars in transactions daily.
  • Extensive backend engineering experience with 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) and event-driven, high-availability systems.
  • Experience with multifactor and borrow risk, margin, or clearing in regulated/financial environments emphasizing correctness, auditability, and low-latency performance.
  • Experience delivering projects end-to-end: scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring, iteration.
  • Experience making decisions balancing 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 improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Skills

Required:Real-time risk engine architectureLow-latency JavaEvent-driven, high-availability systems

Benefits

  • Medical Plan, Dental and Vision Plan with generous employee contributions
  • Health Savings Account with company contributions each pay period
  • Disability and Life Insurance
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Wellness Stipend
  • Mobile/Internet Reimbursement
  • Volunteer Time Off
  • Fertility Counseling and Benefits
  • Generous Time off/Leave Policy
  • Option of getting paid in digital currency
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Buy, sell, and manage cryptocurrencies.

Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone. Two principles guide our efforts. First, be the most trusted company in our domain. Second, create user-focused products that are easier and more intuitive to use.

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