Coinbase
Staff
Staff Software Engineer, Prediction Markets at Coinbase — own core exchange, clearing, and settlement backend
Interview for a Staff-level backend role owning the core systems behind Coinbase's new prediction markets: order management, trade matching, settlement, and market resolution as they migrate off third-party venues onto their own exchange. Expect deep questions on financial correctness, distributed systems at low latency, and driving multi-quarter technical strategy across Product, Compliance, and Risk.
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What this interview tests
- Financial correctness in distributed systems (order management, settlement, clearing, ledgers)
- Low-latency, high-availability backend architecture
- Multi-quarter technical strategy and cross-team leadership
- Regulatory/compliance-aware system design
- Mentorship and raising engineering standards
Common question themes
Design a trade matching / order management system with strict correctness guarantees
Tell me about the highest-stakes distributed system you've owned in production
How have you led a multi-quarter migration or platform rebuild as the senior technical decision-maker
How do you balance regulatory/compliance requirements against engineering velocity
Mentorship: how you've raised code quality and incident response standards on a team
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