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Principal Engineer - Work Profiles

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14 days ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$215k - $307k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the data model strategy and long-term architecture for Work Profiles and Communities.
  • Own API contracts, versioning, compatibility, and governance across the Affiliation Profile API, Work Profile APIs, and OIDC extensions.
  • Set technical direction and design standards for scalable, self-service community and profile delivery.
  • Define and evolve configuration-driven eligibility rules, assurance tiers, validation mechanisms, and attribute mappings.
  • Lead modular validation mechanisms including email-domain checks, ownership matching, document verification, enterprise SSO, and registry integrations.
  • Mentor staff and senior engineers in data modeling, API design, and identity profile architecture.
  • Lead profile lifecycle management covering issuance, expiration, revocation, and revalidation.
  • Ensure security, privacy, compliance, and auditability requirements are incorporated into high-assurance use cases.
  • Represent Work Profiles and Communities in platform-wide architecture decisions and cross-functional technical forums.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience as a recognized technical authority for a complex domain spanning multiple systems.
  • Deep expertise in data modeling, schemas, entity-attribute relationships, and affiliation models at scale.
  • Proven experience designing and owning APIs and data contracts for source-of-truth systems, including versioning, compatibility, and governance.
  • Demonstrated ability to set technical strategy and align engineering teams without direct authority.
  • Experience designing configuration-driven or rules-driven systems.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred experience modeling person-to-organization or person-to-credential relationships and building reusable affiliation systems.
  • Preferred experience designing factory-like or self-service configuration platforms.
  • Preferred expertise in NIST 800-63 IAL2/AAL2, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, graph databases, Verifiable Credentials, and Decentralized Identifiers.
  • Experience in regulated environments and with cloud-native infrastructure using GCP, AWS, or Azure is valuable.
  • Excellent communication skills and a record of influencing technical direction across an organization.

Benefits

  • Full-time, in-office role working onsite five days per week in McLean, VA; Mountain View, CA; New York City, NY; or Tampa, FL.
  • Medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, and commuter benefits.
  • Basic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, accident insurance, and critical illness insurance.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Parental leave and unlimited paid time off subject to company policy, including eight company-wide holidays.
  • Referral bonus, employee assistance program, pet insurance, travel assistance, wellbeing and childcare discounts, benefit advocates, and learning and development benefits.
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