Principal Engineer - Infrastructure

ID.me; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 248,000 - 296,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Principal Engineer for Infrastructure to lead a high-scale infrastructure team. This role involves transforming monolithic systems into scalable microservices, ensuring reliability, and architecting cohesive platforms. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in cloud engineering and a proven track record of enhancing system reliability. Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and collaboration, and help shape the future of digital identity verification. If you're ready to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Unlimited paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Learning and development benefits

Pet insurance

Wellbeing and childcare discounts

Qualifications

• 15+ years of hands-on coding experience in building internal platforms/tools.
• 5+ years of experience in cloud platforms, preferably GCP.

Responsibilities

• Lead the transformation from monolith to scalable microservices.
• Architect systems and write code that enables best practices.

Skills

Cloud Engineering

Reliability Engineering

Microservices Architecture

System Integration

Observability

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Tools

GCP

AWS

CI/CD Tools

Job description

Mountain View, California, United States

Company Overview

ID.me is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. Consumers can verify their identity with ID.me once and seamlessly login across websites without having to create a new login and verify their identity again. Over140 millionusers experience streamlined login and identity verification with ID.me at20 federalagencies,44 state government agencies, and66 healthcareorganizations. More than600 consumer brandsuse ID.me to verify communities and user segments to honor service and build more authentic relationships. ID.me’s technology meets the federal standards for consumer authentication set by the Commerce Department and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. ID.me is committed to “No Identity Left Behind” to enable all people to have a secure digital identity. To learn more, visithttps://network.id.me/ .

Role Overview

The Principal Engineer - Infrastructurerole is building a high-scale infrastructure team responsible for owning environments with thousands of nodes. Candidates must have experience operating at this scale and leading infrastructure through significant transformation—especially moving from monoliths to scalable microservices and platform/API architectures.

Our current team is shifting from reactive support to proactive engineering. Our product demands very reliability and we need someone who understands what that truly means. You’ll help unify a complex infrastructure stack, build systems that guide application teams toward best practices, and drive cross-functional efforts across product, app, and integration teams.

If you've led large-scale growth, know how to turn infrastructure chaos into scalable systems, and can show others what "good" looks like—we want to talk.

The position will work from our Mountain View, CA office five days per week.

Responsibilities

• Lead the transformation from monolith to scalable microservices (API/Platform focus).
• Drive initiatives to continually improve reliability, with a deep understanding of the implications of each “9.”
• Architect systems and write code that enables application teams to adopt best practices by default—not by instruction.
• Integrate and unify diverse infrastructure components into a cohesive, scalable platform within a massive tech stack.
• Design observability, reliability, and CI/CD frameworks to support growth and operational excellence at scale.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, application, and integration teams to align infrastructure direction with business goals.
• Provide technical leadership to shift the team from reactive support to a proactive, strategic function.
• Mentor and guide a team of 6 engineers while shaping the direction of infrastructure engineering.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field of study.
• At least 15 years of hands-on coding experience in building internal platforms/tools to support developer experience and operational best practices.
• At least 5 years of experience in cloud platforms—GCP preferred, AWS acceptable; cloud engineering background required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience scaling infrastructure in environments with many thousands of nodes.
• Track record of leading architectural shifts from monolithic systems to microservices in large-scale environments.
• Deep knowledge of reliability engineering and high-availability systems; able to articulate the impact of increasing the number of 9s.
• Strong understanding of first-party infrastructure integration and unifying disparate systems.
• Familiarity with observability, CI/CD tooling, and infrastructure automation.
• Experience at large-scale tech companies (Google, Meta, Amazon, etc.) or equivalent environments highly preferred.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to drive infrastructure alignment across engineering orgs.

The annual base salary listed does not include a company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity and benefits which will be determined based on experience, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location and role.

ID.me offers comprehensive medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts (medical, limited purpose, dependent care, commuter benefit accounts), basic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) with company match, parental leave, ability to participate in unlimited paid time off subject to the terms and conditions of the PTO policy, including 8 company wide holidays, short and long-term disability insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, referral bonus policy, employee assistance program, pet insurance, travel assistant program, wellbeing and childcare discounts, benefit advocates, and a learning and development benefit.

The above represents the anticipated total rewards package for this job requisition. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on qualifications, professional experiences, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location, and other job related factors.

Mountain View, CA Pay Range

$248,750 - $295,926 USD

ID.me maintains a work environment free from discrimination, where employees are treated with dignity and respect. All ID.me employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling our commitment to equal employment opportunity. ID.me does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. ID.me adheres to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline. In addition, ID.me's policy is to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances where a particular employee works. Upon request we will provide you with more information about such accommodations.

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