Principal Engineer, Work Profiles & Communities

ID.me University Recruiting; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 215,000 - 307,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

ID.me is seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer to serve as the technical authority for Work Profiles and Communities. You will own the data model strategy, API contracts, and long‑term architecture enabling scalable, high‑assurance identity solutions across partner networks.

Collaborate with product, security, and enterprise teams to deliver a trustworthy, self‑service platform used by millions of members and hundreds of partners.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with technical authority across multiple systems.
• Deep expertise in data modeling including entity-attribute and affiliation models.
• Proven track record designing and owning APIs and data contracts for source-of-truth systems.

Responsibilities

• Own data model strategy and long-term architecture for Work Profiles and Communities.
• Own the API contracts across platforms, including versioning and governance.
• Set technical direction and design standards for the domain to enable scalable delivery.
• Define and evolve the profile configuration model powering self-service creation and high‑assurance use cases.
• Lead the architecture of modular validation mechanisms as composable building blocks.

Skills

Data modeling

API design

System architecture

Technical leadership

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Graph databases

Job description

ID.me is seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer to serve as the technical authority for Work Profiles and Communities. You will own the data model strategy, API contracts, and long‑term architecture enabling scalable, high‑assurance identity solutions across partner networks.

Collaborate with product, security, and enterprise teams to deliver a trustworthy, self‑service platform used by millions of members and hundreds of partners.