Sr. Staff Technical Risk Architect, Unified Trading
Coinbase · Remote - USA
About this role
**Sr. Staff Technical Risk Architect, Unified Trading** **About the Role** Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Everything Exchange. 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 serving Retail, Prime, and wholesale brokerage customers. **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 **Required Skills & Experience** • Hands-on architect able to design, build, deploy, and support 24/7 risk systems processing billions of dollars daily • Extensive backend engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems • Track record architecting cross-asset risk systems (crypto, equities, FCM, or derivatives) with real-time, cross-portfolio evaluation at scale • Deep proficiency in low-latency Java and high-throughput messaging (Aeron, SBE, or similar) • Experience with multifactor and borrow risk, margin, or clearing in regulated financial environments • End-to-end project delivery: scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring, and iteration • Experience balancing engineering trade-offs with end-user quality **Compensation** $253,895 – $298,700 USD base salary (excludes equity and bonus) **Position ID:** P7780
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