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# Member of Technical Staff, Protocols at Anchorage Digital

- **Company:** Anchorage Digital
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-30
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/anchorage/9da3433c-b1af-468d-ab1a-e6b044414749

## Job description

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.

Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.

The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn. With the evolving landscape of digital threats and an increasing volume of sophisticated attacks by malicious actors, we have a security policy mandating all new hires complete an in-person onboarding process - no exceptions. Security is our foundation and we prioritize physical identity verification and secure IT setup. While our security and IT logistics require physical presence to protect our infrastructure from sophisticated global threats, this move is equally about our Village culture. We believe that a laptop can be shipped, but our culture cannot.

The Protocols team is the back-end team at Anchorage Digital that works closest to the blockchain. We are responsible for developing cutting-edge digital assets on top of the latest blockchain technologies and working closely with product and design teams to build out DeFi, governance, and participation mechanisms with blockchains.

At Anchorage Digital, we want to support all the assets. This means there will always be a need to learn new blockchains, technologies and innovations, and integrate them into our ecosystem. With all existing and upcoming business lines, developing a scalable, reproducible, and reliable layer--that such business lines can use when interacting with the different blockchains--is critical. We are never "done," we can always do better! By joining Anchorage Digital, not only will you be a part of a top notch team, we also expect you to help the team grow as a whole. From your technical expertise and architecture skills, to mentoring teammates, we work as a team end to end.

You will:

- Deeply research new cryptoassets and integrate them into Anchorage Digital’s platform.
- Implement participatory features that clients need such as staking, governance, vesting, etc.
- Develop infrastructure that scales across all crypto-networks.
- Support assets through upgrades and monitor for network-wide issues.
- Contribute with and review code across the entire stack and engineering organization.
- Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice).
- Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt and bureaucracy.
- Influence architecture/product roadmap - have a seat at the table.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with everyone.
- Help scale the team.
- Work on the front lines of the blockchain/crypto movement and SecOps innovation.
- Ship code that will impact the global economy.

You may be a good fit for this role if:

- You have real world experience building complex distributed systems. We mostly use Go, however languages can be learned. We really care about your engineering skills more than any specific language or framework.
- You enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time.
- You genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure.
- You prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech.”
- You have developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required).
- You self describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail oriented, hard working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action oriented, and tenacious.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

- You have experience with applied cryptography.
- You feel comfortable diving down the stack and into open source projects to root cause a bug.
- In your mind the word “crypto” stands for cryptography, not cryptocurrency.
- You read blockchain protocol white papers for fun, and stay up to date with the proliferation of cryptoasset innovations.
- You have a background in the finance industry.

Tech stack:

- Backend Tech: Go, C++, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault, GCP, AWS, and GraphQL.
- Engineering methodologies: Reverse uptime, cryptographically linked data models, tamper resistant ledgers, air gapped infrastructure, secure execution environments, repeatable builds, and infra-as-code.

About Anchorage Digital: Who we are

The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in  the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 600 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.

Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

Protecting your privacy rights is important to Anchorage Digital, and we work to maintain the trust and confidence of our clients when handling personal or financial information. Please see our privacy policy notices here.

## About Anchorage Digital

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated custody, staking, trading, settlement, and financial infrastructure services, including the first federally chartered crypto bank in the United States.
- **Entity Type**: Private (valuation $4.2 B, $587 M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (offices in New York, Sioux Falls, Porto, Portugal; and Singapore)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Diogo Mónica and Nathan McCauley

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Digital assets / cryptocurrency, financial services, banking
- **Target customers**: Institutional investors (B2B) – including asset managers, hedge funds, banks, and other financial institutions
- **Mission**: “We believe in a safe and accessible economy, strengthened by institutional investment. We’re working to advance participation in the digital asset class.”

## Products & Services
- **Custody** – Qualified, federally regulated safekeeping for digital assets, with self-custody options for direct on‑chain access.
- **Prime Services** – Integrated trading, staking & rewards, and governance.
- **Financial Infrastructure** – Includes fiat banking (USD accounts, wires, ACH), real‑time settlement across counterparties (Atlas settlement), and a wealth management solution.
- **Stablecoin Solutions** – Issuance and management of regulated stablecoins, tokenized deposits for banks, and an interbank layer for near‑instant cross‑border USD stablecoin transfers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: $4.2 billion (most recent report)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue ~$15 M (LinkedIn estimate); Total funding $587 M with 6 rounds
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, Visa
- **Growth Signals**: 43.6 % headcount growth year‑over‑year; became the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S. (January 2021); licensed in Singapore by MAS and holds a BitLicense in New York; secures tens of billions of dollars in digital assets

## Competitive Advantages
- **Regulatory moat**: Only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S. – operates under the same regulatory framework as national banks
- **Security‑first design**: Founders are patent‑holding security engineers; infrastructure built for institutional‑grade security
- **Integrated platform**: Combines custody, trading, staking, settlement, fiat banking, and stablecoin solutions – removing the need to “stitch together point solutions”
- **Global licenses**: Federal charter (OCC), MAS Major Payment Institution license, NY BitLicense – enabling cross‑border institutional services

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding stablecoin issuance and interbank settlement capabilities
- Deepening institutional adoption through regulatory compliance and trusted infrastructure
- Scaling prime services (trading, staking) and wealth management solutions for digital assets
- Leveraging the first‑mover advantage in regulated crypto banking to attract new clients and partners

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Humble, creative, and eager to learn” – teams bring together “the brightest minds from security, finance, and distributed systems”
- **Remote policy**: Remote‑friendly within the U.S. and Portugal; physical workspaces in New York, South Dakota, Singapore, and Portugal
- **Benefits**: 100 % health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents; meaningful equity; flexible time‑off; parental and child bonding leave
- **Engineering focus**: Strong emphasis on security, distributed systems, and building the infrastructure of a new financial system – ideal for engineers passionate about crypto and regulated finance

## Sources
1. [Anchorage Digital About Page](https://www.anchorage.com/about)
2. [Anchorage Digital Homepage](https://www.anchorage.com/)
3. [Anchorage Digital Careers Page](https://www.anchorage.com/careers)
4. [Anchorage Digital Job Openings (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/anchorage)
5. [Anchorage Digital LinkedIn Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/anchorage)

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