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Sr. Staff Technical Risk Architect, Unified Trading

Coinbase · Remote - USA

Posted 26 days ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
26 days
Coinbase's roles stay open a median of 45 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Coinbase's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Coinbase
low
0 stale, 5 reposted of 219 open
Hiring momentum
265 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Coinbase's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Coinbase.

About this role

As a Sr. Staff Technical Risk Architect at Coinbase, you will design and build the real-time risk engine for a unified trading platform, focusing on cross-asset user and portfolio risk. Your role involves ensuring system reliability and performance, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with various teams to align technical vision with product goals. This position offers the opportunity to architect risk infrastructure from the ground up in a fast-paced environment.

Our read on this posting3.2out of 5
benefits
2/5
freshness
4/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Coinbase as an employer.

What you need

  • Hands-on architect experience 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 with user/portfolio modeling and real-time evaluation
  • Deep proficiency in low-latency Java and high-throughput messaging systems
  • Experience with multifactor and borrow risk, margin, or clearing in a regulated financial environment
  • Experience delivering projects end-to-end, including scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring, and iteration

What you get

  • Base salary range of $253,895 — $298,700 USD
  • Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility
  • Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)

Worth weighing

  • Remote-first but not remote-only, with quarterly in-person sessions
  • High-pressure environment that may not suit everyone
  • No specific mention of work-life balance or flexibility in hours

Summarised from Coinbase's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by Coinbase on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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