Staff Backend Engineer — Identity IDV Platform

Coinbase, Inc.; Concord (NH); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the multi-year technical vision for the identity verification platform within Platform. You will lead architecture, design, and rollout across products, regions, and modalities (document, biometric, liveness).

You will drive cross-team strategy, define abstractions and APIs, and enable scale for billions of users while maintaining security and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend software engineering in fintech or regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture and technical direction for Coinbase's IDV platform.

Skills

Backend architecture

Technical leadership

Go programming

gRPC

AWS

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Tools

Go

gRPC

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the multi-year technical vision for the identity verification platform within Platform. You will lead architecture, design, and rollout across products, regions, and modalities (document, biometric, liveness).

You will drive cross-team strategy, define abstractions and APIs, and enable scale for billions of users while maintaining security and regulatory requirements.