Staff Software Engineer, TRUST Network

About the role

This role sets technical direction for the TRUST network, the Travel Rule data-exchange infrastructure operated by Travel Rule engineering at Coinbase, and leads architecture across independently operated member institutions. It suits senior engineers with deep distributed-systems and backend production experience who can also lead cross-functional work and write critical code.

What you'll do

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