Staff Software Engineer, TRUST Network

As a Staff Software Engineer on Coinbase's Travel Rule engineering team, you will set technical direction for the TRUST network, a critical piece of Travel Rule compliance infrastructure across the industry. TRUST defines the protocols members use to securely exchange Travel Rule data, and you will make architectural decisions that hold across independently operated institutions while staying hands-on in design, code, and production operations. You'll guide TRUST's growth from a small, bespoke network into the operating layer for Travel Rule compliance.

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 bring

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

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $218,025-$256,000 USD (varies by location), plus equity and bonus eligibility
• Health benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)
• Remote-first work environment with quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges"

About Coinbase

Coinbase is building the future of finance with a mission to increase economic freedom. The company operates on the principle of high standards and intense collaboration, bringing together people who refuse to settle for "good enough."