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The role
Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own the architecture of its identity verification platform, covering the decision engine and vendor orchestration used across Retail, Prime and Institutional. The role is backend-focused and Coinbase is remote-first.
What you will do
- Own architecture and technical direction for the identity verification platform
- Migrate all verification onto one decision-engine-driven platform and retire legacy rules
- Build vendor-agnostic orchestration with real-time routing and failover
- Scale the platform to new products, regions and verification types with self-serve configuration
- Set abstractions, APIs and platform patterns for the wider Identity org
What they ask for
- 8+ years of backend engineering running large-scale production systems in regulated or fintech settings
- Technical leadership on complex cross-team backend systems
- Distributed-systems expertise covering scalability, reliability and high availability
- Expert coding in Go or a similar systems language, with gRPC, AWS and Kubernetes
- Experience in identity, KYC, fraud infrastructure, vendor orchestration or payments
- Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Coinbase's careers page behind the apply button.
