ID.me
Staff Software Engineer – Trust Service Team
Mountain View, California, United States · Staff+ · Full-time
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Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $123,843 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- Every downstream access decision at federal agencies, state governments, healthcare organizations, and consumer brands depends on the trust data our service produces.
- As a Staff Engineer, you will be the technical anchor for this service.
Responsibilities
- API Contract & Data Model Stewardship: Own the REST API contracts and inspection data model that downstream services, identity workflows, and product teams depend on.
- Lead decisions about versioning strategy, backwards compatibility, and the principles that govern how new inspection types and identity providers are introduced safely.
- Setting the standard for code quality, system design, and engineering best practices.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and architectural guidance.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with Identity, Authentication, Fraud, Workflow, Platform, and Compliance teams whose products are built on top of the trust chain.
- Drive alignment on shared data model decisions and multi-team API changes.
- Reliability, Performance & Security: Own the availability and correctness of trust reads and writes at production scale.
- Lead initiatives around observability, alert hygiene, query performance, capacity planning, and incident response for a service that downstream teams depend on continuously.
- Drive architectural decisions with a long view: make the system more correct, more observable, and easier to evolve without breaking consumers.
- 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- Experience designing and versioning REST APIs and owning the contracts that downstream teams and SDKs depend on.
- Proficiency with AI-assisted development tooling (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) with a commitment to an AI-first engineering culture that maximizes team quality and velocity.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience influencing technical direction across engineering, product, and security stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Deep experience with Java or another JVM language, including modern language features applied to production systems.
- Familiarity with graph or highly relational data models - entity relationships, traversal patterns, and the tradeoffs between different read/write shapes at scale.
- Comfort reasoning about identity trust decisions: what it means for an identity claim to be verified, how different inspection methods vary in reliability, and how temporal decay or expiration affects downstream access.
- Experience with identity standards such as NIST 800-63-3, OAuth2, or OpenID Connect, particularly in the context of federal or regulated-industry deployments.
- Track record of improving engineering culture through documentation, technical standards, architectural review, and developer experience improvements.
- Company Overview
- ID.me is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online.
- 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.
Compensation
- 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
- 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.
Company info
- 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.
This listing is sourced directly from ID.me's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.