Staff Software Engineer (Platform - Identity IDV)

Coinbase; Salem (OR); Remote; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity eligible

Bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase seeks a Staff Software Engineer to own the multi-year technical vision for the Identity IDV platform, powering the decision engine, vendor orchestration, and verification infrastructure at global scale. You will lead platform consolidation, retire legacy rules, and build a vendor-agnostic orchestration with real-time routing and self-serve scalability for new products and regions.

Join a remote-first team and help Coinbase deliver trusted identity verification across Retail, Prime, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years backend software engineering in fintech/regulated environments.
• Proven leadership in end-to-end design and delivery of complex backend systems.
• Experience with high availability, scalability, and production rollout.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture and technical direction for Coinbase's IDV platform.
• Lead platform consolidation by migrating IDV onto a single platform and retire 100+ legacy rules.
• Design and build vendor-agnostic orchestration with real-time routing and failover.
• Scale the platform for new products, regions, and verification modalities with self-serve configuration.
• Drive cross-team technical strategy and define platform abstractions used by multiple pods.

Skills

Backend architecture

Distributed systems

Go programming

gRPC/microservices

AWS

Kubernetes

Technical leadership

Fintech domain knowledge

Tools

Go tooling

AWS services

Kubernetes tooling

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Platform - Identity IDV)

We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own the multi-year technical vision and architecture for Coinbase's identity verification platform within Platform. This platform powers the decision engine, vendor orchestration, and infrastructure that determines whether an identity is genuine at global scale - processing approximately 700K verifications per month across Retail, Prime, and Institutional business lines. You'll define the identity trust layer that every Coinbase product will be built on, leading a three-year arc from platform consolidation through vendor-agnostic orchestration to self-serve scalability for the next billion users.

What you'll do:

• Own end-to-end architecture and technical direction for Coinbase's IDV platform - the decision engine, vendor orchestration layer, and verification infrastructure that all business lines depend on.
• Lead platform consolidation by migrating all IDV onto a single decision-engine-driven platform, retiring 100+ legacy rules and fragmented paths, and eliminating single-vendor points of failure.
• Design and build vendor-agnostic orchestration with automated, real-time routing and failover that selects the optimal vendor per request and dynamically balances fraud prevention (FAR) against user access (FRR/SCR).
• Scale the platform to support every new product, region, and verification modality (document, biometric, liveness) with self-serve configuration so any Coinbase team integrates IDV without a dependency request.
• Drive cross-team technical strategy and set the abstractions, APIs, and platform patterns that the broader Identity org builds on, influencing at the Staff level across multiple pods.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 8+ years of backend software engineering with a track record of deploying and operating large-scale production systems in regulated or fintech environments.
• Proven technical leadership owning end-to-end design and delivery of complex, cross-team backend systems, including system design, architecture, API/data-model design, and production rollout.
• Deep distributed-systems expertise spanning scalability, reliability, API design, and high availability for Tier-0 services.
• Expert-level coding in Go (or equivalent systems language) with hands-on experience in gRPC/microservices, AWS, and Kubernetes.
• Experience in identity, KYC, fraud infrastructure, vendor orchestration, or payments domains with the ability to turn ambiguous compliance and platform problems into actionable technical roadmaps.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

*Pay Transparency Notice:** *Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$218,025—$256,500 USD

• *Equal Opportunity Employer: *Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.