Staff Software Engineer, TRUST Network

Overview

Set the technical direction for the TRUST network, the protocol network members use to exchange Travel Rule data, as it grows into the operating layer for Travel Rule compliance. Stay hands-on in design, code and production operations.

What you'll do

• Define the short-term and long-term strategic vision for the TRUST network and sequence it into an engineering roadmap with Product.
• Lead architecture across the network: services, protocols, and integration patterns for member discovery, address registration, counterparty identification, and secure data exchange.
• Partner with product, legal, and compliance to translate a rapidly changing regulatory landscape into designs that hold up to scrutiny.
• Lead SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code templates with engineers across the industry to cut member onboarding from weeks to days.
• Establish network reliability practices and member-facing monitoring without exposing sensitive customer data.
• Raise the engineering bar by writing critical code, leading design reviews and incident retrospectives, and mentoring engineers.

What you'll need

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, including idempotency, retries, ordering, and partial failure across independently operated services.
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams on multi-quarter projects with measurable outcomes.
• Experience owning production architecture for backend services: API design, asynchronous processing, data modeling, security, and observability.
• Ability to turn ambiguous, multi-stakeholder problems into a technical strategy and explain trade-offs to technical and nontechnical partners.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Details

• Remote role in the USA. Coinbase is remote-first but not remote-only; expect to get together quarterly for in-person working sessions called "surges".
• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $218,025 to $256,000 USD.
• Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.