Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform

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 140 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with ID.me at 20 federal agencies, 44 state government agencies, and 66 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/.

Staff Software Development Engineer (SDE-V) – Data Platform

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 log in across websites without needing to create a new login and re-verify. Over 140 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with ID.me at 20 federal agencies, 44 state government agencies, and 66 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.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer (SDE-V) to lead the architecture and development of our next-generation Data Platform. This role will focus on building and scaling the foundational systems that anchors ID.me’s evolving data architecture, powering secure, connected, and intelligent identity experiences.

As a Staff Software Development Engineer on the Data Platform team, you will drive the technical vision for how data is ingested, stored, indexed, and queried at scale. You will lead a team of talented engineers to architect, evolve, and optimize these platforms to ensure they can meet the demands of our rapidly growing business—all in a cloud-native environment. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping ID.me’s approach to data infrastructure and intelligence services that power identity verification, analytics, and machine learning use cases.

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

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve graph-based storage and indexing systems, supporting complex, connected data workloads.
• Design and maintain cloud-native data infrastructure using containerized microservices, scalable orchestration frameworks, and modern data processing tools.
• Guide and mentor engineers in developing concurrent systems, large-scale distributed architectures, and performance-critical data flows.
• Establish robust data platform APIs and tools that simplify data discovery, access control, and developer experience.
• Contribute to and champion participation in open-source data infrastructure projects, fostering a culture of community-driven innovation.
• Ensure reliability, observability, and security compliance across data platform components in partnership with SRE, security, and compliance teams.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 3 years in data infrastructure or distributed systems engineering.
• Proficiency in a systems programming language such as Go, Java, Rust, or C++.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in distributed systems, or graph-based database architectures.
• Experience designing and optimizing data ingestion pipelines, streaming frameworks, or graph distribution layers.
• Knowledge of cloud-native architectures