Staff Software Engineer, TRUST Network

Coinbase

1d•$218,025 - $256,000•Remote

About The Position

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Travel Rule engineering team, which operates the TRUST network—a critical component of Travel Rule compliance across the industry. TRUST defines protocols that allow members to securely exchange Travel Rule data. The role will help evolve the network from a small, bespoke network into an operating layer for Travel Rule compliance, setting technical direction while remaining hands-on in design, coding, and production operations. The engineer will define and sequence the TRUST network’s strategic vision and roadmap with Product; lead architecture for services, protocols, and integrations; and partner with product, legal, and compliance teams to address a changing regulatory landscape. The role also includes leading SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code templates with engineers across the industry, establishing reliability practices and privacy-conscious member monitoring, and raising engineering standards through critical code contributions, design reviews, incident retrospectives, and mentoring. Coinbase is remote-first but not remote-only. Employees are expected to gather quarterly for in-person working sessions called “surges.”

Requirements

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, including 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.
Use generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

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, including services, protocols, and integration patterns for member discovery, address registration, counterparty identification, and secure data exchange.
Partner with product, legal, and compliance teams to translate the changing regulatory landscape into designs that hold up to scrutiny.
Lead SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code templates with engineers across the industry to reduce member onboarding time 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.