This role pays more than
65%
of similar roles. Most pay
$192,500–$250,250
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$237k
versus about
$221k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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
58 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$215,177–$253,150
across 50 roles with salary data.
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 systems onto a single decision-engine-driven infrastructure, retiring legacy rules, and building vendor-agnostic orchestration with automated routing and failover. The engineer will design scalable systems for various verification modalities like biometrics and liveness while establishing APIs and patterns for the broader Identity organization. Required expertise includes backend engineering in Go, gRPC, microservices, AWS, and Kubernetes. The candidate must possess deep distributed-systems knowledge to manage high availability for Tier-0 services. This role addresses critical identity trust layers, fraud prevention, and KYC infrastructure within a regulated fintech environment, transforming complex compliance requirements into actionable technical roadmaps while utilizing generative AI to improve workflow efficiency and quality.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $204500 from 415 postings across 57 companies.