Staff Software Development Engineer - Person API

Idme; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 217,565 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Unlimited paid time off

Job summary

ID.me is looking for a Staff Software Development Engineer based in Mountain View, CA. You'll design and build core services for managing user identities within our platform and collaborate closely with various engineering teams.

The role requires significant experience in backend development, specifically with APIs using Python, Java, or Go. ID.me offers a competitive salary range of $217,565 to $260,000, along with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience developing backend services and APIs in production environments.
• Expertise in building public-facing REST or GraphQL APIs at scale.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts and cloud-native patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Person Services, managing attribute bundles and trust for the Person entity.
• Build RESTful and GraphQL endpoints that meet standards for reliability, latency, and security.
• Collaborate with Platform, Identity, Security, and Partner Engineering teams.

Skills

Backend services development

API design and implementation

Python

Java

Go

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

Kafka

Job description

Role Overview

ID.me is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to join the Person Resource team and design and build the core services that define and manage a person's identity within our platform. This includes ownership of the data models, APIs, and systems responsible for person creation, attributes, and profiles.

As a Staff Engineer, you will play a key role in architecting and scaling the Person platform to ensure it is secure, consistent, and performant across ID.me's ecosystem. You'll design APIs and services that serve as the source of truth for personal data, working across identity, verification, and platform teams to deliver a scalable and high-performance API that enables the interoperability and integrity of digital credentials used by millions of users and trusted partners.

This position will be based full-time in either our McLean, VA or Mountain View, CA office.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement Person Services, managing attribute bundles and trust for the Person entity.
• Build RESTful and GraphQL endpoints that meet strict standards for reliability, latency, and security, and integrate seamlessly with both internal and external systems.
• Develop robust data models and storage patterns to represent provenance and relationships across relational and graph databases.
• Implement credential lifecycle flows — including creation, validation, renewal, and revocation — integrated with ID.me's identity verification and attribute validation systems.
• Ensure the security and privacy of Person data through strong authentication, authorization, encryption, and audit practices.
• Collaborate closely with Platform, Identity, Security, and Partner Engineering teams to deliver end-to-end features and integrations.
• Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code, including automated tests and observability instrumentation.
• Contribute to system design discussions, code reviews and technical documentation to drive clarity and alignment across teams.
• Continuously optimize performance, scalability and reliability for Person services in production environments.
• Mentor and support senior and mid-level engineers, helping grow technical depth and team capability.
• Stay current on emerging identity and credentialing standards (e.g., Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Identifiers, OIDC extensions) and bring new ideas into the product.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of professional experience developing backend services and APIs in production environments.
• 8+ years of experience in at least one backend language (Python, Go, or Java) and with modern frameworks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise in building and operating public-facing REST or GraphQL APIs at scale.
• Deep experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL or graph data stores.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts, caching, asynchronous processing and cloud-native patterns.
• Experience implementing authentication and authorization (OAuth2, OIDC, JWT or custom schemes).
• Proven ability to design, document and evolve APIs used by multiple internal and external consumers.
• Familiarity with identity and credential verification systems, including data validation, proofing or trust scoring.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP or Azure), including containerization and deployment pipelines.
• Knowledge of event-driven architectures (Kafka, SNS/SQS) and patterns for decoupled service communication.
• Exposure to digital credential and identity standards (e.g., Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Identifiers, W3C DID specs).
• Experience with API gateway technologies (e.g., Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway).
• Strong debugging and performance optimization skills in complex production systems.
• Contributions to open-source backend or identity-related projects are a plus.
• Experience in regulated or high-assurance domains (government, financial or healthcare systems) is advantageous.

Benefits and Pay

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.

Mountain View, CA Pay Range

$217,565 — $260,000 USD

ID.me offers comprehensive 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, and a learning and development benefit.

Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on qualifications, professional experiences, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location and other job related factors.

Equal Employment Opportunity

ID.me maintains a work environment free from discrimination, where employees are treated with dignity and respect. All ID.me employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling our commitment to equal employment opportunity. ID.me does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. ID.me adheres to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs and discipline. In addition, ID.me’s policy is to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances where a particular employee works. Upon request we will provide you with more information about such accommodations.

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