Coinbase
Staff Software Engineer (Platform - Identity IDV)
$218K–$256K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 10, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
US - Remote Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only) - Experience
- 8+ years of backend software engineering.
About the job
Owns the technical vision and architecture of Coinbase’s identity verification platform, scaling it through consolidation, vendor-agnostic orchestration, and self-serve integrations.
What you'll do
- Lead end-to-end architecture and technical direction for the IDV decision engine, vendor orchestration, and verification infrastructure.
- Consolidate fragmented IDV systems and build automated vendor routing and failover.
- Set platform APIs and patterns, and scale self-serve verification across products, regions, and modalities.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience deploying and operating large-scale production systems in regulated or fintech environments.
- Proven technical leadership delivering complex, cross-team backend systems, including architecture, APIs/data models, and production rollout.
- Deep distributed-systems expertise in scalability, reliability, API design, and high availability for Tier-0 services.
- Expert-level Go (or equivalent systems language), with hands-on gRPC/microservices, AWS, and Kubernetes experience.
Nice to have
- Experience in identity, KYC, fraud infrastructure, vendor orchestration, or payments domains.
Pay
$218,025 — $256,500 USD (base salary)
Tools
Go, gRPC, microservices, AWS, Kubernetes
AI focus
Use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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