ID.me

Principal Tech Lead Manager - Trust Graph & Work Profiles

Mountain View, California, United States · Principal · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$63k-$800kDetected 21 days ago

Data StructuresAWSGCPAzureAPI DevelopmentRESTOAuthComplianceLeadershipCommunication

About the role

This role can be based in either our Mountain View, CA office or McLean, VA office, and is onsite in-office 5 days/week.
Trust Graph and Work Profiles are growth areas at ID.me: Trust Graph underpins how we model relationships between identities, credentials, and confidence signals at scale
Work Profiles extends that foundation into enterprise and workforce contexts where organizational identity, entitlements, and delegated authority matter.

Own the technical direction, architecture, and delivery across Trust Graph and Work Profiles, with growing scope into Authentication.
Set and enforce API contract standards and data model integrity across your domain, ensuring the systems you own are reliable dependencies for the rest of the platform.
Drive the design and evolution of graph-based representations of identity relationships, trust signals, and enterprise work profile structures.
Own the engineering roadmap for your domain in partnership with Product, translating strategic priorities into a sequenced, executable plan.
Mentor and develop engineers at all levels, raising the technical bar for graph data modeling, API design, and enterprise identity patterns across the org.
This is a principal-level engineering role with full people management responsibility - you will both set the technical agenda and directly manage a team of 6-10 engineers.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
15+ years of software engineering experience, including time as a recognized technical authority across a complex, multi-system domain.
Experience in graph data structures and modeling - specifically the tradeoffs between graph and relational representations of connected data at scale.
Track record designing and owning API contracts and data models for platform systems used by internal and external consumers.
Experience in enterprise or workforce identity contexts: organizational structures, delegated authority, entitlements, or B2B identity patterns.
Together, these systems must be highly reliable, well-modeled, and built to serve both consumer and enterprise use cases.

Especially important for this role:
Hands-on experience with graph databases (e.g., Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, or similar) and designing schemas that model complex identity or organizational relationships at scale.
Experience designing and owning platform APIs consumed across a large enterprise - including versioning strategy, backward compatibility, and governance - ideally in a multi-tenant or B2B context.
Experience with authentication protocols and standards (OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML) and how they intersect with trust and identity graph models.
Familiarity with NIST 800-63 or similar identity assurance frameworks, particularly as they apply to credential verification and trust decisions.
Experience in regulated environments with security, compliance, or data privacy requirements.
Experience with cloud-native infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and the operational considerations of running graph workloads at scale.
Familiarity with emerging identity and credentialing standards (Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Identifiers, OIDC extensions).

Company Overview
ID.me is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online.
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.

$214,972 - $250,000 USD
Mountain View, CA Pay Range
$242,693 - $275,400 USD
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 adheres to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline.

Directly manage a team of 6-10 engineers: hiring, development, performance, and team health.

ID.me is seeking a Technical Lead Manager to own engineering execution and technical direction across the Trust Graph and Work Profiles domains, with scope extending into Authentication as our platform expands.

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.

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