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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