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# Staff Software Engineer (Platform - Identity IDV)

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** Topeka, KS, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Fraud Prevention and Detection, Software Engineering, Software Systems, User-Centered Design, System Availability, Backend, Build Management, Api Design, Microservices
- **Published:** August 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.kansasworks.com/jobs/13633938

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

* 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.


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