Staff Software Engineer, Platform - Access & Authorization
Coinbase
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This role pays more than 62% of similar roles. Most pay $195,442–$251,315 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $237k versus about $223k for comparable roles.
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Coinbase Global is a publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange platform where consumers can buy, sell, and store digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies. Industry: Cryptocurrency Exchange & Financial Technology
Coinbase currently has 94 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $191,250–$218,900 across 85 roles with salary data.
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The Staff Software Engineer (Platform - Identity IDV) joins the Platform team to own the multi-year technical vision and architecture for the identity verification platform. This role involves leading platform consolidation by migrating legacy rules into a single decision-engine-driven platform and building vendor-agnostic orchestration with automated, real-time routing. You will design infrastructure to support various verification modalities like biometrics and liveness while setting abstractions, APIs, and platform patterns for the broader Identity organization. The position requires expert-level coding in Go, gRPC, microservices, AWS, and Kubernetes. You must possess deep distributed-systems expertise to solve complex problems in identity, KYC, fraud infrastructure, and payments, ensuring high availability for Tier-0 services while balancing fraud prevention against user access across global business lines.
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