The opportunity
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
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.
+ years of backend software engineering with a track record of deploying and: operating large-scale production systems in regulated or fintech environments.
What they're looking for
- 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.
