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This role pays more than
98%
of similar roles. Most pay
$169,325–$222,125
— the blue band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$286k
versus about
$196k
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
94 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$191,250–$218,900
across 85 roles with salary data.
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Exchange team, you will set the architectural direction for the matching engine, order management, market data, and unified trading systems. You will own the technical strategy for core exchange domains, leading the design of ultra-low-latency, event-sourced trading systems across cloud and colocated environments. Your daily work involves driving cross-team technical alignment, setting quality bars for deterministic testing and failover design, and maintaining hands-on contributions while mentoring other engineers. You must possess deep expertise in low-latency distributed systems and backend languages including Java, C++, or Go, with fluency in JVM and Linux performance tuning. This role solves the technical challenges of building a trading platform capable of clearing billions of dollars in daily volume for institutional markets.
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