Senior DevEx & AI Platform Engineer

iDme Technologies Corp; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

ID.me in McLean, VA seeks a Software Engineer (SDE3) for Developer Experience and AI Platform to automate and simplify how engineers build and ship software. You’ll design golden paths across languages, implement AI-driven tooling, and reduce cognitive load with autonomous agents.

Based in our McLean office, this full-time role emphasizes automation, guardrails, and scalable development practices with modern AI integrations. Join a team that values hands-on engineering and mentorship.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 3+ years of professional software development experience building backend services, developer tooling, or platform automation.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Ruby, TS/JavaScript, or Java) and ability to work across multiple language ecosystems to build language-specific tooling and paved paths.
• Demonstrated track record of using and building with modern AI and Agentic AI tools to accelerate software delivery and automate engineering workflows.
• Deep passion for automation, self-service system design, and reducing cognitive load for other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build Self-Service Platforms & Intelligent Guardrails: Design, build, and maintain internal developer tools, CLI utilities, IDP workflows, and reusable GitHub Actions that make building and deploying services fast and intuitive—while embedding automated guardrails.
• Develop & Evolve Language-Specific Paved Paths: Create and maintain opinionated, programming-language-specific “golden paths” that bake in production readiness, observability, and security best practices by default.
• Superpower Developer Workflows with AI & Agentic Systems: Build and operate AI-native developer platform capabilities—including MCP servers/registries, context-engineering and RAG pipelines, and AI coding assistant integrations.
• Automate Ownership & Maintenance with Autonomous AI Agents: Design and deploy autonomous AI agents that automate recurring engineering ownership and maintenance toil.
• Eliminate Toil & Manual Ticket Queues: Partner with product, infrastructure, SRE, and security teams to replace manual processes with self-service automation.
• Own End-to-End Platform Features: Drive Developer Experience and AI Platform initiatives from design to rollout, measuring impact with DORA metrics.
• Champion Enablement & Mentorship: Evangelize AI-augmented workflows, write docs, and mentor engineers through code reviews and enablement workshops.

Skills

Go

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

Java

Automation mindset

Education

Bachelor’s or Graduate degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Backstage

MCP servers/registries

Job description

ID.me in McLean, VA seeks a Software Engineer (SDE3) for Developer Experience and AI Platform to automate and simplify how engineers build and ship software. You’ll design golden paths across languages, implement AI-driven tooling, and reduce cognitive load with autonomous agents.

Based in our McLean office, this full-time role emphasizes automation, guardrails, and scalable development practices with modern AI integrations. Join a team that values hands-on engineering and mentorship.