ID.me

Staff Software Engineer – AI Enablement

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2 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$218k - $260k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build internal developer platforms, service scaffolding, and automated CI/CD tooling.
  • Design and implement multi-agent automation systems, adaptive conversational flows, and LLM orchestration using LangGraph and foundation model APIs.
  • Create DSL and FSM abstractions for modeling and routing complex multi-agent platform tasks.
  • Implement near-real-time memory and shared session management for persistent state across developer tools, bots, and internal APIs.
  • Build highly available distributed systems using Redis, Kafka, and DLQ bridges.
  • Establish prompt-engineering practices, AI safety guardrails, logging standards, and governance controls.
  • Instrument microservices and health monitoring with sidecar patterns, data streams, automated checks, and Datadog dashboards.
  • Mentor mid-level and senior engineers, lead architecture reviews, and set engineering standards for AI agents and platform systems.
  • Define and monitor developer-experience metrics such as onboarding time, deployment success rates, and task automation velocity.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience developing backend systems, distributed architectures, or core platform tools.
  • 2+ years operating at Staff or Principal engineering scope.
  • Formal technical leadership experience mentoring at least two engineers, leading architecture reviews, or serving as the primary technical lead for a multi-engineer project.
  • Strong hands-on coding skills in Java, Python, or Go.
  • Deep experience with microservices architecture, RESTful web services, and event-driven architectures.
  • Preferred experience building agentic workflows, multi-agent systems, and LLM integrations with LangGraph, AWS Bedrock, OpenAI API, and Anthropic API.
  • Preferred extensive practical experience with Terraform for cloud provisioning, state management, and infrastructure deployment.
  • Preferred experience with DSLs, FSMs, dynamic agent routing, Redis, Kafka, PostgreSQL, NoSQL databases, and streaming platforms.
  • Preferred experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, DLQs, sidecar monitoring, automated secret management, and self-healing systems.
  • Proven ability to mentor engineers, influence architecture, and collaborate with product, security, SRE, and infrastructure teams.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, commuter, life, AD&D, disability, accident, and critical illness benefits.
  • 401(k) with company match, parental leave, unlimited paid time off subject to policy, and eight company-wide holidays.
  • Employee assistance, pet insurance, travel assistance, wellbeing and childcare discounts, benefit advocates, referral bonus policy, and learning and development benefits.
  • Full-time onsite work five days per week in Mountain View, California or McLean, Virginia; remote and hybrid work are not available.
  • Relocation assistance and visa sponsorship are not offered.
ID.me

About ID.me

1,001-5,000 employees

ID.me builds a secure digital identity network and wallet used for identity proofing, sign-in, and community verification across government, healthcare, and commerce. The company sells authentication and verification services to agencies and enterprises, including NIST 800-63-3 IAL2/AAL2–approved credentials, plus group eligibility checks for discounts. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in McLean, VA, ID.me supports access at 20 U.S. federal and 45 state agencies and 70+ healthcare organizations.

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