Staff Software Development Engineer

Company Overview
is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. Consumers can verify their identity with 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 at 20 federal agencies, 45 state government agencies, and 70+ healthcare organizations. More than 600+ consumer brands use to verify communities and user segments to honor service and build more authentic relationships. 's technology meets the federal standards for consumer authentication set by the Commerce Department and is approved as a NIST IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. is committed to "No Identity Left Behind" to enable all people to have a secure digital identity. To learn more, visit

Role Overview
We are seeking a
Staff Software Development Engineer (SDE-V)
to lead the design and implementation of
foundational data platform services
at This role will focus on building and scaling the APIs, data services, and automation that underpin 's evolving data ecosystem—enabling secure, compliant, and self-service access to data across the company.

As a Staff Engineer on the Data Platform team, you will define the technical vision for how data is collected, governed, and distributed in a modern,
event-driven architecture
. You will lead efforts to automate data governance, retention, and compliance processes, ensuring data reliability and consistency at scale. You'll collaborate closely with infrastructure, compliance, and product engineering teams to build the platform capabilities that power identity verification, analytics, and intelligence use cases.

This role is based out of our Mountain View, CA or McLean, VA offices and requires full-time in-office attendance.

Responsibilities

• Design and own foundational Data Platform APIs that provide secure, standardized, and compliant access to data across services.
• Architect and evolve event-driven data systems that enable reliable ingestion, processing, and distribution of real-time and batch data.
• Automate data governance, retention, and compliance workflows, embedding guardrails into the developer experience.
• Define patterns and frameworks for data lineage, metadata management, and access control.
• Partner with SRE, Security, and Compliance teams to ensure data systems meet SLAs for reliability, observability, and regulatory standards.
• Lead engineering initiatives that improve developer experience around data discovery, stewardship, and responsible data ownership.
• Mentor engineers across teams, raising the technical bar for distributed systems and platform design.
• Contribute to and advocate for open-source and internal tooling that supports data infrastructure innovation.

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 at least 3 years in data infrastructure or distributed systems engineering.
• Proficiency in a systems programming language such as Go, Java, Rust, or Python.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and building event-driven systems using technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, or Pub/Sub.
• Expertise in developing data APIs and platform services that support governance, retention, and compliance automation.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and microservice-based architectures.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm).
• Familiarity with data engineering technologies (e.g., Spark, Flink, Airflow, dbt) and modern data pipeline design patterns.
• Strong understanding of data privacy, security, and regulatory compliance frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, GDPR, NIST).
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and mentor engineers in best practices for distributed systems.
• Passion for developer experience, clean abstractions, and building scalable, maintainable platform solutions.

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.

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.

The above represents the anticipated total rewards package for this job requisition. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on qualifications, professional experiences, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location, and other job related factors.

Mountain View, CA Pay Range

$217,565—$260,000 USD

maintains a work environment free from discrimination, where employees are treated with dignity and respect. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling our commitment to equal employment opportunity. 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. adheres to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline. In addition, '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.

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