Software Engineer – Developer Experience & AI Platform

Idme; McLean (VA); Vor Ort; USD 140.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

ID.me seeks a Software Engineer (SDE3) for Developer Experience and AI Platform to automate and simplify software delivery. The role focuses on self-service tooling, golden paths for multiple languages, and AI-enabled developer workflows within the Core Platform Engineering group.

You will design and implement scalable tooling, guardrails, and autonomous agents to reduce toil, improve security, and accelerate code changes in a large in-office team in McLean, VA.

Qualifikationen

• 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.
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Go/Python/JS/Java) and cross-language tooling experience.
• Proven use of AI and Agentic AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, LLM APIs, MCP servers) to accelerate delivery.

Aufgaben

• Build Self-Service Platforms & guardrails to speed deployment while preventing breaking changes.
• Develop language-specific paved paths with scaffolding, SDKs, and templates for production readiness.
• Create AI-enabled developer workflows and agent integrations to reduce cognitive load.
• Automate ownership and maintenance with autonomous AI agents for upgrades and remediation.
• Eliminate toil by automating workflows across product, infra, SRE, and security.

Kenntnisse

Backend development

Go / Python / JS / Java

AI tooling

Ausbildung

Bachelor's or Graduate in CS

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

LLM APIs

Agentic frameworks

Jobbeschreibung

Company Overview

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 175 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with ID.me at 22 federal agencies, 50 state government agencies, and more than 100 healthcare organizations. Over 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

We are seeking a Software Engineer (SDE3), Developer Experience and AI Platform to join our Core Platform Engineering organization at ID.me. In this role, you will bring a relentless automation and self-service mindset —passionate about “automating all the things” to eliminate operational friction and cognitive load across the engineering organization. You will build the tools, systems, and platforms that free up other engineers’ time and context windows, making it effortless for them to build and ship software quickly while making it hard to break production. ID.me is evolving as an API-first platform company , and everything we build on the Developer Experience and AI Platform team is superpowered by modern AI and Agentic AI tools and systems . As an SDE3 on this team, you will design and evolve programming-language-specific paved paths (“golden paths”) that standardize service creation, CI/CD, observability, and security out of the box. Furthermore, you will build and integrate autonomous AI agents and agentic workflows (such as MCP integrations, RAG-powered developer context, and automated remediation pipelines) that progressively automate ongoing service ownership, upgrades, and maintenance tasks across ID.me’s codebase. This role is based out of our McLean, VA office and requires full-time in-office attendance .

Responsibilities

• Build Self-Service Platforms & Intelligent Guardrails: Design, build, and maintain internal developer tools, CLI utilities, Internal Developer Portal (IDP) workflows, and reusable GitHub Actions that make building and deploying services fast and intuitive—while embedding automated guardrails that make it hard for engineers to introduce breaking changes, security gaps, or compliance regressions.
• Develop & Evolve Language-Specific Paved Paths: Create and maintain opinionated, programming-language-specific “golden paths” (including project scaffolding, SDKs, shared libraries, container base images, and standardized CI/CD templates) 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 Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers/registries, context-engineering and RAG pipelines, and AI coding assistant integrations that optimize both human developer cognitive load and AI context windows.
• Automate Ownership & Maintenance with Autonomous AI Agents: Design and deploy autonomous and human-in-the-loop AI agents that automate recurring engineering ownership and maintenance toil—such as dependency and framework upgrades, vulnerability remediation, configuration migrations, automated test generation, and standards enforcement.
• Eliminate Toil & Manual Ticket Queues: Partner with product, infrastructure, SRE, and security teams to identify high-friction bottlenecks in the software development lifecycle and replace manual processes or ticket queues with 100% self-service automation.
• Own End-to-End Platform Features: Drive medium-to-large Developer Experience and AI Platform initiatives from technical design through rollout, adoption, and operational support, measuring impact via DORA metrics (Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Change Failure Rate, and Time to Restore) and developer satisfaction.
• Champion Enablement & Mentorship: Evangelize modern AI-augmented engineering workflows, write clear documentation, and mentor fellow engineers through code reviews, pairing, and enablement workshops.

Minimum 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.
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Ruby, TypeScript/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 (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, LLM APIs, MCP servers, or agentic frameworks) to accelerate software delivery a