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Principal Engineer, Digital Identity

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16 days ago
Seattle, WA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USAStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Define the technical strategy and architectural direction for Digital Identity platforms spanning identity resolution, entitlement management, and fine-grained authorization.
  • Design scalable authorization architectures for multi-person, business, family, and custodial access patterns.
  • Lead convergence of overlapping identity and authorization infrastructure across multiple technology organizations.
  • Architect verification, reconciliation, integrity-checking, drift-detection, and self-healing systems for Tier-0 financial platforms.
  • Establish operational processes, incident response standards, reliability practices, design reviews, and engineering standards.
  • Mentor senior individual contributors and build an engineering culture focused on technical leadership and continuous improvement.
  • Identify high-leverage technical investments and represent technical direction to peer groups and senior or executive leadership.
  • Write code and use AI-assisted development to prototype and accelerate engineering work.

Requirements

  • Experience designing and shipping distributed systems platforms at scale that other engineering teams depend on.
  • Strong understanding of event-driven system failure modes, eventual consistency, cross-service data integrity, and production tradeoffs among consistency, availability, and latency.
  • Experience building systems with reconciliation mechanisms, audit trails, integrity guarantees, and automated verification.
  • Active use of AI for software development, prototyping, and experimentation, with the ability to assess its benefits and risks.
  • Experience driving technical strategy across multiple teams and navigating ambiguous technical and organizational problems.
  • Track record of establishing engineering processes and standards, improving operational readiness and on-call practices, and mentoring senior engineers.
  • Experience owning measurable outcomes such as enabling products, eliminating risks, and unblocking teams.
  • Preferred experience with identity and authorization platforms, multi-tenant or consumer-facing systems, relationship-based access control, fine-grained authorization, or identity federation.
  • Preferred experience in financial services or other regulated industries requiring compliance, audit trails, and strong data integrity.
  • Preferred track record of merging or unifying infrastructure across acquisitions, subsidiaries, or organizations with different technology stacks.

Benefits

  • SoFi offers comprehensive and competitive benefits.
  • Remote work cannot be accommodated from Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.

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About SoFi

1,001-5,000 employees

SoFi is a values-driven company on a mission to help our members get their money right. We create modern financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, and protect their money better, so that they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions—from owning a home to saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, and more. CFL #6054612; NMLS #1121636 (www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org) Advisory services through SoFi LLC, a registered investment advisor. SoFi Checking and Savings is offered through SoFi Bank, N.A. Member FDIC. SoFi Money™ is offered through SoFi Securities LLC, member FINRA/SIPC.

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