ID.me
Company Overview
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 140 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with ID.me at 20 federal agencies, 44 state government agencies, and 66 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.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. 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/.
Company Overview 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 log in across websites without needing to create a new login and re-verify. Over 140 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with ID.me at 20 federal agencies, 44 state government agencies, and 66 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.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. 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.
Role Overview We are seeking a
Staff
Software Development Engineer (SDE-V)
to join our growing infrastructure engineering team at ID.me. As an SDE-V, you'll have the charter to focus on building the foundational
Platform Services
and
Traffic Engineering
capabilities that power our internal and external systems at scale.
ID.me is a platform company, embracing an
API-first development strategy
to ensure consistent, scalable, and reusable systems. As an SDE-V, you will lead the design and development of scalable infrastructure tools that abstract and expose capabilities from
cloud platforms
(such as AWS and GCP) and
SaaS providers
(Cloudflare), transforming them into reusable building blocks for our internal engineering teams. You will also be a key driver in evolving our
traffic management architecture , taking ownership of key systems such as
Envoy ,
Istio ,
Cloudflare ,
API Gateways , and
cross-cloud networking
strategies.
This role is based out of our
Mountain View, CA office
or
Mclean, VA office , and requires
full-time in-office attendance .
Responsibilities Lead the design and implement platform APIs and tools that expose cloud and SaaS services (e.g., GCP IAM, AWS EventBridge, Secrets Manager) in a consistent, secure, and developer-friendly way. Own end-to-end delivery of service orchestration layers and APIs that standardize provisioning, access control, observability, and lifecycle management for underlying cloud-native services. Architect and evolve the service mesh and API gateway infrastructure across multi-cloud environments using technologies such as
Envoy ,
Istio ,
NGINX , and
Cloudflare . Mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and pairing. Lead initiatives to optimize routing, failover, and ingress/egress strategies for performance, resilience, and cost. Develop tooling and automation for traffic observability, policy enforcement, and fine-grained access control. Set technical direction and mentor other engineers within the Infrastructure team and across engineering orgs. Partner with security, compliance, and developer experience teams to ensure platform services align with internal policies and standards. Drive adoption of platform services and traffic engineering best practices across engineering teams. Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's or Graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field. 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong focus on infrastructure, cloud services, or developer platforms. Proficiency in a modern programming language (e.g., Java, Go, Python, Ruby, JavaScript). Preferred Qualifications
Deep experience designing systems that integrate with
AWS ,
GCP , and/or other major cloud providers. Expert knowledge in
service mesh
technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd),
proxies
(e.g., Envoy, NGINX), and
API gateways . Strong understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi), and GitOps principles. Proven track record of technical leadership and driving large-scale platform initiatives. Experience with security compliance in enterprise environments (e.g., SOC2, FedRAMP). Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially in technical contexts. Passion for mentorship, documentation, and elevating team performance. Understanding of production observability principles (logging, metrics, alerting). Demonstrated ownership of at least one significant project or feature from design through launch. Contributions to open-source projects in the infrastructure or traffic engineering space.
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 does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. ID.me adheres to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline. 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. Upon request we will provide you with more information about such accommodations.
Please review our Privacy Policy, including our CCPA policy, at id.me/privacy. If you provide ID.me with any personally identifiable information you confirm that you have read and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set out in our Privacy Policy.
ID.me participates in E-Verify.
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 140 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with ID.me at 20 federal agencies, 44 state government agencies, and 66 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.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. 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/.
Company Overview 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 log in across websites without needing to create a new login and re-verify. Over 140 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with ID.me at 20 federal agencies, 44 state government agencies, and 66 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.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. 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.
Role Overview We are seeking a
Staff
Software Development Engineer (SDE-V)
to join our growing infrastructure engineering team at ID.me. As an SDE-V, you'll have the charter to focus on building the foundational
Platform Services
and
Traffic Engineering
capabilities that power our internal and external systems at scale.
ID.me is a platform company, embracing an
API-first development strategy
to ensure consistent, scalable, and reusable systems. As an SDE-V, you will lead the design and development of scalable infrastructure tools that abstract and expose capabilities from
cloud platforms
(such as AWS and GCP) and
SaaS providers
(Cloudflare), transforming them into reusable building blocks for our internal engineering teams. You will also be a key driver in evolving our
traffic management architecture , taking ownership of key systems such as
Envoy ,
Istio ,
Cloudflare ,
API Gateways , and
cross-cloud networking
strategies.
This role is based out of our
Mountain View, CA office
or
Mclean, VA office , and requires
full-time in-office attendance .
Responsibilities Lead the design and implement platform APIs and tools that expose cloud and SaaS services (e.g., GCP IAM, AWS EventBridge, Secrets Manager) in a consistent, secure, and developer-friendly way. Own end-to-end delivery of service orchestration layers and APIs that standardize provisioning, access control, observability, and lifecycle management for underlying cloud-native services. Architect and evolve the service mesh and API gateway infrastructure across multi-cloud environments using technologies such as
Envoy ,
Istio ,
NGINX , and
Cloudflare . Mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and pairing. Lead initiatives to optimize routing, failover, and ingress/egress strategies for performance, resilience, and cost. Develop tooling and automation for traffic observability, policy enforcement, and fine-grained access control. Set technical direction and mentor other engineers within the Infrastructure team and across engineering orgs. Partner with security, compliance, and developer experience teams to ensure platform services align with internal policies and standards. Drive adoption of platform services and traffic engineering best practices across engineering teams. Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's or Graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field. 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong focus on infrastructure, cloud services, or developer platforms. Proficiency in a modern programming language (e.g., Java, Go, Python, Ruby, JavaScript). Preferred Qualifications
Deep experience designing systems that integrate with
AWS ,
GCP , and/or other major cloud providers. Expert knowledge in
service mesh
technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd),
proxies
(e.g., Envoy, NGINX), and
API gateways . Strong understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi), and GitOps principles. Proven track record of technical leadership and driving large-scale platform initiatives. Experience with security compliance in enterprise environments (e.g., SOC2, FedRAMP). Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially in technical contexts. Passion for mentorship, documentation, and elevating team performance. Understanding of production observability principles (logging, metrics, alerting). Demonstrated ownership of at least one significant project or feature from design through launch. Contributions to open-source projects in the infrastructure or traffic engineering space.
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 does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. ID.me adheres to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline. 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. Upon request we will provide you with more information about such accommodations.
Please review our Privacy Policy, including our CCPA policy, at id.me/privacy. If you provide ID.me with any personally identifiable information you confirm that you have read and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set out in our Privacy Policy.
ID.me participates in E-Verify.