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Mountain View, California, United States
Onsite
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.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/.
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 Work Profiles and Communities platforms — the systems that define how individuals prove affiliation with organizations, institutions, and professional communities, and how that proof is structured, issued, and reused across ID.me’s ecosystem.
Work Profiles and Communities are among ID.me’s highest-growth domains. Work Profiles enables companies and government agencies to define precise eligibility criteria — employees, contractors, licensed professionals, authorized signers — and verify individuals against those rules at the right assurance level, from low-friction consumer offers to high-assurance regulated transactions (FDIC, IRS, HHS, SSA). Communities extends this capability to professional and brand communities: fitness professionals for Lululemon, trade contractors for Home Depot, corporate employees for Verizon. Together, these systems must scale to thousands of distinct profiles, support a “validate once, reuse everywhere” model across ID.me’s partner network, and be deliverable to customer specification within weeks.
This role calls for deep expertise in data modeling and API design — specifically how person-to-organization and person-to-credential relationships are represented, how eligibility rules and affiliation evidence are structured into queryable profiles, and how those profiles are issued to users’ wallets and federated via OIDC to downstream partners. You will own the data model strategy, API contract integrity, and long-term architecture for both platforms, and you will set the technical patterns that allow ID.me to scale community delivery into a high-velocity, self-service factory.
You’ll partner closely with Product, Architecture, Identity, Security, Compliance, and enterprise customer teams to deliver a trustworthy, scalable foundation used by millions of members and hundreds of partners.
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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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