• Own the Onboarding & KYC platform end-to-end: Serve as the primary technical owner for the domain, including how onboarding and identity signals integrate with adjacent products, services, and data platforms across Coinbase. • Architect the next generation platform: Lead a multi-quarter rebuild modernizing legacy systems into a geo-specific architecture that scales globally and supports evolving compliance requirements. • Set the technical vision and standards: Act as the technical authority for this area, driving domain abstraction, defining the target architecture, and expanding the platform beyond KYC into a broader onboarding foundation that can support new product offerings and use cases. • Drive reliability and zero-downtime evolution: Design for high availability, operational integrity, and safe migrations—ensuring critical identity flows remain resilient while systems are modernized. • Improve customer experience through platform design: Reduce onboarding friction while maintaining strong compliance controls, optimizing for conversion, correctness, and consistency across regions. • Innovate beyond today’s roadmap: Explore and prototype future-forward directions such as Agentic Onboarding (AI-driven) and On-Chain KYC, including how emerging AI capabilities should reshape identity systems and what an “AI-proof” identity platform looks like. • Cultural and technical leadership: Mentor Staff engineers, raise the bar on engineering and operational excellence, and introduce new technical paradigms and best practices. • Influence cross-functionally: Partner with Product, Design, Compliance, Legal, and other engineering orgs to align on requirements, tradeoffs, and sequencing for complex, high-stakes initiatives.