ID.me

Principal Engineer Person & Trust Platform

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14 days ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$243k - $307k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the data model strategy and long-term architecture for the Person API, Trust Service, and Inspection Catalog.
  • Design and govern API contracts, including versioning, compatibility, and standards for internal and external consumers.
  • Set technical direction and design standards for identity, evidence, and trust systems.
  • Lead modernization and consolidation of legacy identity data into scalable, modular services and contracts.
  • Model Person-to-SSN, Person-to-Face, and Person-to-Legal relationships and connect inspection evidence to trust decisions.
  • Ensure the security, privacy, and compliance of platform data.
  • Mentor staff and senior engineers and provide lasting technical leadership across the domain.
  • Influence alignment across engineering, Product, Architecture, Identity, Security, and Compliance teams without direct authority.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience as a recognized technical authority for a complex multi-system domain.
  • Deep expertise in data modeling and graph data structures, including scalable, performant, and auditable schemas and relationships.
  • Proven experience designing and owning APIs and data contracts for source-of-truth systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to set technical strategy and drive alignment across engineering teams.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • Hands-on experience with graph databases and graph-versus-relational modeling tradeoffs is especially important.
  • Experience modeling evidence and confidence scoring into queryable records is especially important.
  • Experience building or owning systems that manage person or entity attributes and relationships at scale.
  • Expertise with NIST 800-63 IAL2/AAL2 standards, evidence requirements, verification methods, and identity lifecycle management is valuable.
  • Experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure is valuable.
  • Experience in regulated environments and familiarity with Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Identifiers, or OIDC extensions are valuable.
  • Excellent communication skills and a record of influencing technical direction across an organization.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Health savings, flexible spending, commuter, life, AD&D, disability, accident, and critical illness insurance options.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Parental leave and unlimited paid time off subject to policy, including eight company-wide holidays.
  • Employee assistance, pet insurance, travel assistance, wellbeing, childcare discounts, benefit advocates, referral bonus, and learning and development benefits.
  • Full-time, in-office role, generally five days per week, with offices in McLean, Mountain View, New York City, and Tampa.
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