ID.me
Principal Tech Lead Manager - Data Platform & Reliability Engineering
Mountain View, California, United States · Principal · Full-time
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The bottom of this range ($63,000) is below the Level I prevailing wage of $83,803. An H-1B cannot be filed below the prevailing wage, so an offer at the floor of this band could not be sponsored as posted.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $102,669 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 "Mechanical Engineers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Mechanical Engineers (17-2141) · Bakersfield-Delano, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- This team acts as the core service owner for ID.me's high-throughput PostgreSQL database clusters and our critical, in-house Identity Trust Graph Database.
- You will bridge the gap between deep infrastructure reliability and platform engineering, guiding a team of engineers to ensure our operational and analytical data layers meet strict SLAs for uptime, performance, data freshness, and compliance.
Responsibilities
- Own Data Infrastructure & Reliability: Define and evolve the technical architecture and operational standards for ID.me's data platform, focusing heavily on the performance, scale, and high availability of production PostgreSQL database clusters and our in-house graph database.
- Drive SRE Practices for Data Tier: Implement robust mechanisms for database clustering, replication, failover, disaster recovery, automated provisioning, and zero-downtime migrations.
- Performance Engineering & Optimization: Monitor, optimize, and scale platform services to meet strict requirements for query latency, throughput, and cross-region availability. Guide data model and schema design across relational and graph architectures.
- Security, Governance & Compliance: Partner with Security, Privacy, and Compliance engineering to enforce rigorous data governance, data minimization, lineage tracking, and access controls.
- In this dual-hatted role, you will own the full technical architecture and people leadership mandate for the data platform tier.
- 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 600 consumer brands use ID.me to verify communities and user segments to honor service and build more authentic relationships.
- 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.
- ID.me is seeking a Tech Lead Manager (TLM) to lead and scale our Data Platform Team, with a heavy emphasis on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Data Reliability.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, site reliability, or platform engineering.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
Nice to have
- Graph Database Experience: Familiarity or hands-on experience with graph database concepts, optimization, and technologies (e.g., Neo4j, Amazon Neptune) or custom-built graph layers.
- Streaming & Pipelines: Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming data pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis) feeding into relational or non-relational datastores.
- Regulated Environments: Background working within highly secure or regulated industries (e.g., FinTech, HealthTech, GovTech) handling highly sensitive personal data.
- Database Expertise: deep, hands-on experience architecting, managing, tuning, and maintaining highly available production PostgreSQL database clusters at scale.
- Reliability & SRE Foundations: Proven background in data reliability engineering, site reliability engineering, or core data platform engineering.
- Deep familiarity with setting up production SLAs/SLOs, automated alerting, and incident response systems.
- Cloud & Infrastructure-as-Code: Strong experience with at least one major cloud platform (preferably AWS) and cloud-native ecosystem tools, including Kubernetes, Terraform, and Helm.
- Cross-Functional Communication: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate complex database infrastructure and reliability needs into clear, actionable goals for product teams and executives.
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.
- Over 140 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with ID.me across federal, state, healthcare, and consumer brand networks.
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.