Principal Software Development Engineer Person & Trust Platform
ID.me
Mountain View, California
Full-Time
$242,693
RemoteSenior
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 152 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with ID.me at 20 federal agencies, 45 state government agencies, and 70+ 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.mes 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/.
ID.me is a full-time, in-office culture. Unless a specific job description explicitly states otherwise, all roles are on-site five days per week at one of our offices in McLean, VA; Mountain View, CA; New York City, NY; or Tampa, FL. Certain roles such as field-based sales or other remote-by-design positions may have different work arrangements as noted in their individual postings.
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ID.me is seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer to serve as the technical authority across the Person and Trust platforms the systems that define who a person is and how much confidence ID.me can place in that identity. You will own the data model strategy, API contracts, and long-term architecture across the Person API, the Trust Service, and the Inspection Catalog, along with the verification and validation evidence that connects them.
Person, Trust, and the Inspection Catalog are foundational systems at ID.me: together they determine who someone is, how inspection evidence is collected, and how much confidence to place in that identity. The role calls for deep expertise in data modeling and graph structures, applied to how verification and validation evidence and the resulting trust decisions are represented and queried. You will own how identity data is modeled including how Person-to-SSN, Person-to-Face, and Person-to-Legal relationships are expressed and how confidence in an identity is determined.
Youll set technical direction, establish the patterns and contracts that other teams build against, and partner closely with Product, Architecture, Identity, Security, and Compliance to deliver a trustworthy foundation used by millions of users and trusted partners.
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.
ID.me offers comprehensive medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts (medical, limited purpose, dependent care, commuter benefit accounts), basic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) with company match, parental leave, ability to participate in unlimited paid time off subject to the terms and conditions of the PTO policy, including 8 company wide holidays, short and long-term disability insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, referral bonus policy, employee assistance program, pet insurance, travel assistant program, wellbeing and childcare discounts, benefit advocates, and a learning and development benefit.
Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on qualifications, professional experiences, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location, and other job related factors.
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