OCC TRUST · PRIVATE · Anchorage Digital

Engineering Lead, Security

Engineering lead for security at Anchorage Digital: a player-coach over vulnerability management, incident response, and monitoring, inside a federally chartered trust company.

You are deciding whether to lead security, or to own stablecoin product, at a trust company that mandates in-person onboarding and was reported to be laying people off the week of 2 October 2026.

Blockchain Lab analysis, for a candidate deciding whether to apply. We are not the employer. Compensation on this posting: Not disclosed.

Listing age

256 days — confirm the req

Equity

Private. Illiquid.

Series D mark

Over $3 billion

Where

United States

Status: Open on the employer board — checked 2026-10-06
Board updated: 2026-01-23 · 256 days before this check
Location: United States
Remote eligibility: United States, described as full-time remote. The same posting mandates in-person onboarding with no exceptions.
Employment: Full-Time - Remote
Compensation: Not disclosed
Experience, as stored: 8+ years in security or software engineering, including 3+ years as a formal people manager. From the posting.
Original post date: Not disclosed

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The company you would actually join

Blockchain Lab analysis

Public reporting and the employer’s own releases. Not a relationship with Blockchain Lab. Not a credit opinion.

Founded: 2017, in San Francisco. Nathan McCauley is the chief executive on the October 2026 reporting. Diogo Mónica is the co-founder paired with him in the company's public origin.
Base: Both seats say United States and full-time remote. Both mandate in-person onboarding, no exceptions. Offices named on the posting include New York, Porto, Singapore, and Sioux Falls.
Status: Private. OCC national trust charter since 2021, as The Information described it. Equity is not stock you can sell.
People: About 400 employees globally as of McCauley's February 2026 testimony, The Information reported. A 17% cut on that base is roughly 68 people if headcount had not already moved. The company did not comment, the same piece said.

Anchorage's unusual fact is the charter. In 2021 it became the first crypto firm with a national trust charter from the OCC. That is why the clients are banks and why the stablecoin seat reads like a payments-product role at a bank: idempotency, webhooks, Fedwire, reconciliation. The security-lead seat is a manager's job with a player-coach clause — 8 years technical, 3 years as a formal people manager, distributed team. Neither posting discloses pay. Both disclose a security policy: every new hire completes in-person onboarding, no exceptions.

The week this desk was checked, The Information reported that McCauley had told employees the firm was cutting 17% of staff. About 400 people had been the February testimony. The same article is the source for the $4.2 billion Tether mark. A company can take strategic capital and cut staff in the same year. The candidate question is whether your seat is the expansion or the backfill. The stablecoin product is the expansion story — USAT and a Western Union coin are named in that reporting. The security lead is the function that does not get to be a press release. Ask which team the cut landed on.

Founders

Nathan McCauley

Co-founder and CEO

The executive The Information says told staff about the cuts the week of 2 October 2026. He is also the person whose February testimony is the source of the 400-employee figure. If you interview, you are interviewing a company in the week after that conversation, whether or not the recruiter mentions it.

Diogo Mónica

Co-founder

The other founder of the 2017 San Francisco company. The charter and the bank posture are the culture, not a startup loft. A product manager who has not shipped inside a bank will feel it on the stablecoin seat, because the posting asks for ACH, RTP, and Fedwire as fluency.

What the company sells

Custody under a charter

The federal trust is the product. Clients are institutions. The security-lead seat is the practice that has to match that claim.

Stablecoins

The product seat owns the stablecoin platform: banks, PSPs, clearing, fiat conversion, settlement. The Information named USAT, with Tether, and Western Union's USDPT among issuance work.

What the posting already discloses

Series D valuation over $3 billion. Backers named there include a16z, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa.

Capital

Series D mark

Over $3 billion

Employer-stated on the posting. Older than the Tether mark.

Tether round

$4.2 billion

The Information. $100 million strategic.

These seats' pay

Not disclosed

Neither posting states a band.

Headcount

About 400, then a cut

February testimony, then a reported 17% reduction the week of 2 October 2026.

On the posting
Series D
Valuation over $3 billion
The employer's line: funded by a16z, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, Series D valuation over $3 billion. This brief does not restate a round size the posting did not put next to that sentence.
2026, before October
Tether strategic
$100 million at $4.2 billion
The Information, 2 October 2026: a $100 million strategic investment from Tether valuing the company at $4.2 billion, described as February's mark in the layoff piece. Cointelegraph's report of the same layoff repeats the investment. Not a retail round.

What should change your mind

A reported layoff in the week of the check. Confirm the req survived it.
Private equity at a $4.2 billion strategic mark. Illiquid, and preference stacks matter.
In-person onboarding is not optional, even on a remote US contract.
Bank-grade product work. A DeFi CV without rails experience will bounce off the stablecoin posting's own requirements.

Ask them

Did the 17% cut touch this team, and is the req still funded?
What is the strike relative to the $4.2 billion mark, and what did Tether get besides equity?
Where is onboarding, and how long are you required to be there?
Which stablecoins are in production versus announced?

Sources

If a figure is not in those sources, it is not in this brief on purpose.

What the employer actually wrote

Employer stated. Engineering lead for security at Anchorage Digital: a player-coach over vulnerability management, incident response, and monitoring, inside a federally chartered trust company.

You have experience leading distributed teams, working cross-functionally across varying time zones
Deep understanding of security fundamentals including vulnerability management, incident response, security monitoring, and secure coding practices
You've maintained a "player-coach" skillset with the ability to provide technical guidance while managing people and processes
You genuinely enjoy learning new things and have a proven track record of diving below the surface when faced with uncertainty, understanding the "why" and the "how," not just the "what"
Demonstrate extensive knowledge across multiple security domains (vulnerability management, incident response, security monitoring, application security) with deep expertise in at least one area

Source: the employer’s public Greenhouse record, job b5dfd585-f708-41c9-b9bf-94adde925067. Open the original. First seen by this desk 2026-10-06. Nothing above the fold is a substitute for that page.

A reading of the work

Blockchain Lab analysis. These lines are a reading of the advertisement. They are not extra hiring requirements.

People management is not optional. The posting asks for 3+ years of it.
In-person onboarding is a security policy, not a preference.
A layoff reported the week of 2 October 2026 is the first question, not the tenth.

Still not disclosed

Compensation, unless a figure appears in the header. None of these eighteen postings stated one.
Closing date, and the day the role was first published. The board timestamp is an update.
Visa sponsorship, on-call, and the employing subsidiary.

Not a recommendation to apply. Not an employer assessment. Figures from public reporting move, and a database is not a filing. How this desk labels evidence. Report a listing.

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