Staff Software Engineer, Platform - Identity IDV

Coinbase

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Remote

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Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$218,025–$256,500 / yr
Posted
13 days ago
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About Coinbase

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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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Platform - Identity IDV

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.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $208800 from 354 postings across 50 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own the end-to-end architecture and technical direction for the global identity verification platform.
  • Lead the migration of all identity verification onto a single decision-engine-driven platform.
  • Design vendor-agnostic orchestration with automated real-time routing and dynamic failover.
  • Scale the platform to support new products and regions through self-serve configuration.
  • Set the abstractions, APIs, and platform patterns for the broader Identity organization.
  • Drive the technical strategy for identity trust layers across all Coinbase products.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of backend software engineering experience deploying large-scale production systems in regulated or fintech environments.
  • Proven technical leadership in owning end-to-end design and delivery of complex, cross-team backend systems.
  • Deep distributed-systems expertise in scalability, reliability, API design, and high availability for Tier-0 services.
  • Expert-level coding in Go or an equivalent systems language.
  • Hands-on experience with gRPC, microservices, AWS, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience in identity, KYC, fraud infrastructure, vendor orchestration, or payments domains.
  • Ability to utilize generative AI responsibly to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency.

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