Senior Software Engineer – Platform & Data Infrastructure

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

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. Over 152 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with ID.me at 20 federal agencies, 45 state government agencies, and 70+ healthcare organizations. More than 600+ consumer brands use 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, visit https://network.id.me/.

ID.me is a full-time, in-office culture. Unless a specific job description explicitly states otherwise, all roles are on-site five days per week at one of our offices in McLean, VA; Mountain View, CA; New York City, NY; or Tampa, FL. Certain roles — such as field-based sales or other remote-by-design positions — may have different work arrangements as noted in their individual postings.

At ID.me, we embrace the thoughtful use of AI tools in our daily work and there are even occasions where we leverage AI in our hiring process. However, during the interview process, we want to understand your individual skills and experiences. Therefore, we have guidelines on how AI can be appropriately used during your application and interviews which can be found here.

Role Overview

ID.me is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Platform & Data Infrastructure) to architect, scale, and maintain the core cloud-native platform and data infrastructure that powers our digital identity platform. In this role, you will take ownership of multi-region Kubernetes fleets, automated GitOps pipelines, policy-as-code governance, and enterprise data workflow orchestrations. Working closely with Platform, Security, SRE, and Product Engineering teams, you will turn complex infrastructure into self-service developer capabilities, enforce security guardrails, and ensure high availability across critical production services. This is a hands‑on technical role for a senior engineer with deep expertise in cloud-native distributed systems, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps continuous delivery, and data platform operations.

This role is based out of our Mountain View, CA or McLean, VA offices and requires full-time in-office attendance.

Responsibilities

• Operate Cloud‑Native Kubernetes Fleets: Own the lifecycle, network topology, node‑pool migrations, and multi‑region deployment of production Kubernetes clusters (GKE/EKS) supporting microservices at scale.
• Drive GitOps & CI/CD Delivery: Maintain automated GitOps reconciliation pipelines using FluxCD and Helm, driving cluster bootstrapping, progressive rollouts, and secret integrations.
• Scale Infrastructure as Code & Policy Governance: Architect modular Terraform codebases, manage enterprise workspaces (Terraform Enterprise/Terragrunt), and enforce compliance guardrails using policy-as-code frameworks (Sentinel/OPA).
• Maintain Data Platform Infrastructure: Build and optimize data pipelines and workflow orchestrations using Apache Airflow, Kafka, and enterprise data warehouses (e.g., BigQuery).
• Enforce Zero‑Trust Security & Secrets Management: Integrate enterprise secret management tools (HashiCorp Vault, External Secrets Operator, Google Secret Manager/KMS) and enforce Workload Identity and network perimeter controls.
• Lead Complex Infrastructure Migrations: Direct zero‑downtime infrastructure initiatives, including IP‑addressing migrations, cluster rebuilds, and database cutovers.
• Drive Reliability, DR & On‑Call Excellence: Active participation in on‑call rotations, designing observability dashboards (Splunk, GCP Cloud Logging/Stackdriver), writing runbooks, and executing regional disaster recovery (DR) failover drills.
• Technical Mentorship: Guide mid‑level and junior engineers through code/design reviews, establishing self‑service infrastructure standards across the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or cloud data infrastructure.
• Strong programming skills in modern languages/scripts such as Python, Bash, SQL, or Java.
• Deep experience operating enterprise‑scale Kubernetes fleets (GKE or EKS) and container ecosystems.
• Extensive, practical experience writing modular Terraform and managing Infrastructure as Code at scale.
• Demonstrated experience operating event‑streaming and workflow systems such as Apache Airflow, Kafka, or BigQuery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).
• Hands‑on experience with Terraform Enterprise (TFE) and writing Sentinel or Open Policy Agent (OPA) policy‑as‑code guardrails.
• Proven experience with GitOps workflows utilizing FluxCD or ArgoCD across multi‑tenant production fleets.
• Advanced secrets management expertise using HashiCorp Vault and Kubernetes External Secrets Operator.
• Track record of executing large‑scale cloud migrations, data warehouse transitions (e.g., Vertica to BigQuery), or networking range overhauls with zero customer impact.

Mountain View, CA Pay Range

$190,978 — $214,052 USD

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.

Benefits

• 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
• learning and development benefit

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