Staff Software Engineer (Platform - Identity IDV)

• 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.

• 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

We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own the multi-year technical vision and architecture for Coinbase’s identity verification platform within https://www.coinbase.com/careers/product-groups. 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.