Coinbase
Senior
Own the backend that runs Coinbase's prediction markets end to end
This is a Senior Backend Engineer role on Coinbase's Prediction Markets team, building the systems behind market creation, trading, oracle resolution, and payouts for a real-money product used by millions. Expect deep distributed-systems and financial-correctness questions plus ownership and cross-functional judgment.
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What this interview tests
- Distributed systems design for trading/market infrastructure
- Low-latency, high-throughput backend architecture
- Reliability: SLOs, observability, incident response
- Correctness and auditability in a regulated financial system
- Oracle-driven resolution and settlement/payout mechanics
- Technical leadership: code/design review standards, mentoring
Common question themes
Design a market creation and order management system for a new prediction market
How would you architect oracle-driven resolution and handle disputed outcomes
Walk through a time you owned SLOs and incident response for a high-scale service
Trade-offs between consistency and latency in a real-time trading system
A user-facing product decision where you balanced engineering trade-offs with UX
How you'd pay down technical debt while shipping new market infrastructure
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