Senior Platform & Data Infra Engineer

Idme; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 214,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Life Insurance

401(k) with company match

Parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Disability insurance

Accident and critical illness

Referral bonus

Employee assistance program

Pet insurance

Travel assistant

Wellbeing and childcare discounts

Learning and development benefit

Job summary

ID.me is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Platform & Data Infrastructure) to architect, scale, and maintain the core cloud-native platform and data infrastructure powering our identity platform. You will own multi-region Kubernetes fleets, GitOps pipelines, policy-as-code governance, and enterprise data workflows.

You will work with Platform, Security, SRE, and Product Engineering teams to deliver self-service capabilities, enforce security guardrails, and ensure high availability across

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, SRE, or cloud data infrastructure.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Bash, SQL, or Java.
• Deep experience operating enterprise-scale Kubernetes fleets (GKE/EKS).
• Extensive experience writing modular Terraform and IaC at scale.
• Experience with event-streaming/workflow systems (Airflow, Kafka, BigQuery).

Responsibilities

• Operate Cloud‑Native Kubernetes Fleets: Own lifecycle, network topology, node-pool migrations, and multi-region deployment of production clusters (GKE/EKS).
• Drive GitOps & CI/CD Delivery: Maintain automated GitOps reconciliation pipelines using FluxCD and Helm.
• Scale Infrastructure as Code & Policy Governance: Architect modular Terraform codebases and enforce guardrails with policy-as-code (Sentinel/OPA).
• Maintain Data Platform Infrastructure: Build data pipelines and workflows with Airflow, Kafka, and BigQuery.
• Enforce Zero‑Trust Security & Secrets Management: Integrate Vault and Kubernetes External Secrets; enforce identity and perimeter controls.
• Lead Complex Infrastructure Migrations: Perform zero-downtime migrations and database cutovers.
• Drive Reliability, DR & On‑Call Excellence: Participate in on-call rotations; design observability dashboards and DR drills.
• Technical Mentorship: Guide mid-level and junior engineers through reviews and standards.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Airflow

Kafka

GKE/EKS

CI/CD

Python

Education

CS degree (BS/MS)

Tools

FluxCD

Helm

Terraform Enterprise

Open Policy Agent

Vault

Job description

ID.me is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Platform & Data Infrastructure) to architect, scale, and maintain the core cloud-native platform and data infrastructure powering our identity platform. You will own multi-region Kubernetes fleets, GitOps pipelines, policy-as-code governance, and enterprise data workflows.

You will work with Platform, Security, SRE, and Product Engineering teams to deliver self-service capabilities, enforce security guardrails, and ensure high availability across