Engineering Manager, Market Data & Analytics

Coinbase

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$218,900–$256,500 / yr
Posted
19 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $231k
This role $238k
$181k most similar roles pay here $282k

This role pays more than 53% of similar roles. Most pay $191,250–$271,488 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $238k versus about $231k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Coinbase

Coinbase Global is a publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange platform where consumers can buy, sell, and store digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies. Industry: Cryptocurrency Exchange & Financial Technology

Coinbase currently has 89 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $186,065–$218,900 across 79 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Market Data & Analytics

As an Engineering Manager, Market Data & Analytics within the Institutional product group, you will lead a team of engineers building and scaling the real-time market data and analytics platform powering trading systems. You will own the technical roadmap for the domain, manage a team of five to ten engineers through coaching and career development, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver features. Your daily work involves ensuring high accuracy, low latency, and reliability for index and reference price calculations, market data ingestion and distribution, and funding rate computation. You must possess deep technical fluency in systems design, streaming data pipelines, and backend languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or C++. This role solves critical infrastructure problems where trading, risk, and clearing depend on high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems to provide reliable data for institutional clients and exchange services.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in Remote?

Median $237262 from 41 postings across 19 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own the technical roadmap for market data and analytics while aligning priorities with institutional product goals.
  • Lead and grow a team of 5-10 engineers through coaching and career development.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to scope, sequence, and ship features for market data capabilities.
  • Ensure index pricing and market data feeds meet strict accuracy, latency, and uptime requirements at scale.
  • Shape engineering culture and manage the hiring process to build a pipeline of high-quality talent.
  • Maintain high standards for code quality and operational rigor across all team projects.
  • Translate complex business requirements into clear engineering plans with well-defined milestones.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience.
  • 3+ years managing engineering teams building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
  • Proven track record delivering real-time data, market data, or financial infrastructure systems with strict accuracy and reliability requirements.
  • Deep technical fluency in systems design, streaming/data pipelines, and at least one backend language (Java, Kotlin, Go, or C++).
  • Demonstrated success hiring, developing, and retaining senior engineers.
  • Experience partnering with Product and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into engineering plans.
  • Ability to utilize generative AI responsibly to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

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