Base Salary
$190k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and secure data stores.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, application, and product teams to optimize storage for performance, reliability, cost efficiency, and product scale.
- Define and advocate for best practices in data modeling, access patterns, monitoring, and incident response.
- Build automation and observability and perform proactive capacity planning.
- Participate in code reviews and architectural discussions and mentor junior engineers.
- Partner with engineering teams on complex initiatives and develop simple solutions to complex problems.
- Shape system design, development methodologies, and implementation technologies.
Requirements
- BA/BS in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience focused on large-scale, distributed data systems.
- Expertise designing and operating scalable data storage solutions, ideally with MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and Redis.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures, particularly Google Cloud or equivalent cloud providers.
- Deep understanding of data consistency, replication, partitioning, and high-availability strategies.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes.
- Software development experience in Ruby, Go, Python, or Java, preferably with Ruby on Rails and ORMs.
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle practices including requirements gathering, design, coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and cross-functional teamwork skills.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for eligible US employees
- 3% 401(k) contribution for eligible US employees
- Unlimited paid time off
- Quarterly mental health days
- Family planning benefits
- Professional development stipend
- Wellness benefits
- Private medical and dental insurance and a 6% employer pension contribution for eligible UK employees
- Monthly wellness stipend and co-working stipend for eligible UK employees
- Infrastructure team is fully remote across the US and Canada
Tech Stack
About Persona
Persona helps businesses manage KYC/AML/KYB programs, fight fraud, and build trust by automating any identity-related use case with our flexible identity infrastructure. For example, we help Coursera verify learners’ identities before delivering course credentials and Brex comply with strict international KYC/AML regulations. Beyond securely collecting and verifying user information such as PII, government IDs, and selfies, our platform also provides flexible case review and orchestration tools to help businesses streamline and automate all their identity operations — from setting custom rules to ingesting third-party data and triggering external actions. In short, Persona handles the complexities of securely collecting, verifying, and managing sensitive personal information, so you can stay focused on building your product.