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Role Summary
The Sr. Staff Technical Risk Architect will own architecture for the real-time, cross-asset risk and margin engine supporting a unified trading platform. The role focuses on risk evaluation across users and portfolios and on building reliable, high-performance systems for trading customers.
What You'll Do
- Own architecture for the real-time, cross-asset risk and margin engine, including user and portfolio modeling, multifactor and borrow...
- Design low-latency, high-throughput risk systems while maintaining correctness and performance.
- Own reliability and performance for risk-critical systems, including SLOs, observability, and incident response.
- Set technical standards through code and design reviews, and address significant technical debt.
- Mentor engineers and reduce single-point-of-failure risk in risk architecture.
- Partner with Product, Trading, Financing/Credit Risk, Security, and Compliance to turn technical vision into a roadmap.
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Required: hands-on architecture and support of 24/7 risk systems; extensive backend engineering and ownership of production-grade distributed systems; experience architecting cross-asset risk systems with user and portfolio modeling and real-time cross-portfolio evaluation; low-latency Java and high-throughput messaging such as Aeron or SBE; experience with multifactor and borrow risk, margin, or clearing in regulated or financial environments; end-to-end project delivery; engineering trade-off decisions demonstrated through shipped products; responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.
Required
- Hands-on architect able to design, build, deploy, and support 24/7 risk systems processing billions of dollars in daily transactions.
- Extensive backend engineering experience and demonstrated ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems.
- Track record architecting a cross-asset risk system (crypto, equities, FCM, or derivatives) with user/portfolio modeling and real-time,...
- Deep proficiency in low-latency Java and high-throughput messaging (Aeron, SBE, or similar), designing event-driven, high-availability...
- Experience with multifactor and borrow risk, margin, or clearing in a regulated or financial environment where correctness,...
- Experience delivering projects end-to-end: scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring, and iteration.
- Experience making decisions that balance engineering trade-offs with end-user quality, demonstrated through shipped products.
- Responsible use of generative AI, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in...
Original job description
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Original job description
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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.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
Team/ Role:
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 Risk Architect on the Trading team, you'll design, build, and own the real-time risk engine at the heart of a unified trading platform: cross-asset user and portfolio risk evaluated in real time on the core trading system that serves our Retail, Prime, and wholesale brokerage customers. It's a rare chance to architect risk infrastructure from the ground up, with the ownership of a startup and the reach of Coinbase.
What you’ll do:
- 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, keeping correctness and performance in step 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 pay down the technical debt that matters most.
- 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 turn technical vision into a roadmap.
Required skills and experience:
- Hands-on architect, able to design, build, deploy, and support 24/7 risk systems that process billions of dollars of transactions daily.
- Extensive backend engineering experience, with demonstrated 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), designing event-driven, high-availability systems.
- Experience with multifactor and borrow risk, margin, or clearing in a regulated or financial environment where correctness, auditability, and low-latency performance are critical.
- Experience delivering projects end-to-end: scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring, and iteration.
- Experience making decisions that balance engineering trade-offs with end-user quality, demonstrated through shipped products.
- Responsible use of generative AI, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Position ID: P7780
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About the company
Coinbase
Large Enterprise
Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform that enables users to buy, sell, and manage digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and has grown to serve millions of users globally, providing a secure and user-friendly experience for both novice and experienced traders. Coinbase aims to create an open financial system for the world, advocating for the adoption of digital currencies while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards in various markets. Through its innovative products and services, Coinbase seeks to empower individuals and institutions to transact in cryptocurrencies with confidence.