ID.me is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. Consumers can verify their identity with ID.me once and seamlessly login across websites without having to create a new login and verify their identity again. Over 140 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with ID.me at 20 federal agencies, 44 state government agencies, and 66 healthcare organizations. More than 600 consumer brands use ID.me to verify communities and user segments to honor service and build more authentic relationships. ID.me’s technology meets the federal standards for consumer authentication set by the Commerce Department and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. ID.me is committed to “No Identity Left Behind” to enable all people to have a secure digital identity. To learn more, visit https://network.id.me/.
Role Overview
The Software Development Engineer VI will play an instrumental role in shaping the digital account experience for over 100 million ID.me customers and building the identity layer of the internet.
The Shared Services team at ID.me is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining foundational services that power engineering teams across the organization. This team focuses on data encryption and event processing, ensuring that these critical components operate securely, efficiently, and at scale. By developing robust shared services, the team enables multiple engineering teams to focus on feature development while ensuring compliance, reliability, and seamless system coordination. The team acts as the backbone of the engineering platform, supporting multiple teams by providing scalable and reliable infrastructure.
We are looking for a very experienced Principal Engineer to lead our Shared Services team and assume technical ownership to drive the team’s vision, architecture, and engineering excellence. They will mentor engineers, define and uphold technical standards, and ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of shared services. They will collaborate closely with internal product engineering teams to build solutions that streamline development and support company-wide initiatives. Additionally, they will partner with Product Management to align technical decisions with business objectives, prioritize initiatives, and drive strategic impact. This is a high-impact leadership opportunity to shape the foundation of our engineering platform and contribute to the success of multiple teams.
The position will work from our Mountain View, CA office five days per week.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain data encryption services, ensuring secure storage, transmission, and access control across multiple engineering teams.
- Build and maintain event-driven architectures that enable real-time data processing, analytics, and distributed coordination across systems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define best practices for shared services standards across engineering.
- Develop, articulate, and iterate a long-term vision, and deliver impactful results through key milestones (i.e., days/weeks vs months), with a high bias for action.
- Raise the bar for technical excellence, engineering best practices, testing strategies, and distributed system design through pairing, mentoring, architecture / code reviews, technical presentations, and knowledge sharing sessions.
- Exert significant influence on the overall vision and long-term goals of the company by co-leading roadmap planning with engineering and product leadership.
- Own end-to-end deliverables through committing quality code and overseeing the work of others, with sound judgment to know what is appropriate.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field of study.
- Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing scalable shared services for data encryption and/or event-driven systems.
- Experience in developing and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
- 16+ years developing web applications using Java, Ruby, Javascript, Go, Python, or C++.
- Significant level of ownership of systems, architecture, and designing a technical roadmap and proven expertise building Platforms.
- Proven experience creating and driving technical roadmap(s), working with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and other technical leaders to make tradeoff and prioritization decisions.
- A proven track record of successfully building and owning distributed systems and services at scale by incorporating containers, cloud native services, and infrastructure as code driven tooling.
- Proven ability to lead a team through up-leveling its automated testing skills and posture.
- Experience moving an organization forward in best practices around tracking, observability, monitoring, and alerting.
- Deep understanding of web technologies, frameworks, programming design patterns and paradigms, and APIs.
- Mastery of databases, queues, and caching systems in a cohesive architecture with experience using various technologies in the right circumstances and the ability to communicate tradeoffs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Masters degree and/or PhD in Computer Science or related field of study.
- Excellent leadership and mentorship abilities with exceptional oral and written communication skills, and a self-managing work ethic.
- Solid understanding of A/B testing strategies with the ability to design experiments, debug detect anomalies, and interpret results.
- Solid understanding of cryptography, access control mechanisms, and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, NIST, GDPR, etc.).
- Experience with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance and an understanding of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
- Experience with data retention and data governance.
- Experience working in a startup environment.
- Experience with account management and user data preferences specifically with data lifecycle management.
- Experience with Hashicorp Nomad/Vault/Consul/Terraform.
- Experience using automated deployment and verification strategies.
- A passion for automated testing as a lever to increase quality and predictability for the entire ecosystem
The annual base salary listed does not include a company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity and benefits which will be determined based on experience, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location and role.
ID.me offers comprehensive medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts (medical, limited purpose, dependent care, commuter benefit accounts), basic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) with company match, parental leave, ability to participate in unlimited paid time off subject to the terms and conditions of the PTO policy, including 8 company wide holidays, short and long-term disability insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, referral bonus policy, employee assistance program, pet insurance, travel assistant program, wellbeing and childcare discounts, benefit advocates, and a learning and development benefit.
The above represents the anticipated total rewards package for this job requisition. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on qualifications, professional experiences, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location, and other job related factors.
Mountain View, CA Pay Range
$212,602—$295,926 USD
ID.me maintains a work environment free from discrimination, where employees are treated with dignity and respect. All ID.me employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling our commitment to equal employment opportunity. ID.me does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. ID.me adheres to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline. In addition, ID.me's policy is to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances where a particular employee works. Upon request we will provide you with more information about such accommodations.
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What We Do
ID.me simplifies how individuals prove and share their identity online. The ID.me secure digital identity network has over 100 million members with over 70,000 individuals joining daily, as well as partnerships with 31 states, multiple federal agencies, and over 500 name brand retailers. The company provides identity proofing, authentication and group affiliation verification for organizations across sectors.
The company's technology meets the highest federal standards and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 conformant credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. ID.me is the only provider with video chat and in-person verification, increasing access and equity. The team is committed to "No Identity Left Behind" to enable all people to have a secure digital identity.
Our Mission is to make the world a more trusted place by delivering the highest level of security with the least amount of friction at the lowest possible cost.
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