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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 Staff Data Engineer, Market Data on the Institutional Markets team, you'll architect, build, and own the systems that generate, capture, normalize, and distribute real-time market data across Coinbase at low latency - the ticker plant and distribution backbone of a unified trading platform - while leading a lean, high-impact team. It's a rare chance to architect market data infrastructure from the ground up, with the ownership of a startup and the reach of Coinbase.
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Position ID: P77881
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