ID.me
Senior Software Engineer – Quality Engineering
Mountain View, California, United States · Senior · Full-time
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$13,461 more — $76,461 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $76,461 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 Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) · 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
- Company Overview ID.me is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online.
- 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.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Develop end-to-end and integration testing strategies for complex, asynchronous, event-driven, and eventually-consistent systems, including workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal.
- Build and champion testing-in-production practices - canary deployments, progressive/phased rollouts, synthetic monitoring, and automated rollback triggers - to validate real-world behavior safely before full release.
- Own security-focused test automation covering authentication/authorization flows (OAuth 2.0, OIDC), RBAC/ReBAC, secrets management, and tenant isolation.
- Debug and root-cause issues across frontend, backend, APIs, and distributed services, and drive fixes to closure.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience (or equivalent: 6+ years with a Master's degree, or a PhD with 3+ years) as a software engineer in modern web applications and distributed systems.
- Proficiency in Python/TypeScript/JavaScript/Java
- Hands-on experience with Playwright, Jest, and API automation.
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
Nice to have
- API & Systems Testing: REST APIs, microservices, distributed and event-driven architectures
- workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal)
- Identity & Access Management: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML 2.0, SCIM 2.0
- enterprise IdPs (Okta, Entra ID, Auth0, Ping)
- RBAC/ReBAC (Zanzibar, SpiceDB) and multi-tenant authorization
- Security & Compliance: AuthN/authZ testing, secrets management, tenant isolation, least-privilege access
- IDV/KYC and PII/compliance validation
- Testing Strategy & Ops: Canary/phased rollouts, automated rollback, contract testing (Pact), performance/load testing (Locust, k6, Gatling)
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
- Design, build, and maintain automation frameworks (Playwright, Python, Jest, API automation) that provide comprehensive, reliable test coverage across ID.me's services.
- Partner with development teams as a testing strategist, advising on testable code structure, coverage gaps, and quality checks throughout the development lifecycle.
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.