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Staff Software Engineer – Trust Service Team

ID.me Mountain View, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-01 → 2026-09-26

Core

Architect and lead the Trust Service, a foundational platform API that manages identity verification trust data for 152M+ users across federal, state, and healthcare sectors.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Platform/Infrastructure)

Builds

The Trust Graph, a structured, queryable record of identity inspections and the core API surface for downstream access decisions.

Domain

Identity & Authentication / High-availability Backend Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Relational database design and optimization, REST API contract stewardship, cross-team technical leadership, system architecture at scale, incident response, observability

Preferred skills

AI-assisted development tooling proficiency, NIST 800-63-3 IAL2/AAL2 compliance knowledge

Technologies

Relational databases, REST APIs

Responsibilities

Own the technical vision and architecture for the Trust Service data model and API surface; Steward API contracts and data model evolution for downstream dependencies; Mentor senior and mid-level engineers on code quality and system design; Partner with Identity, Fraud, and Compliance teams on shared data model decisions; Ensure production availability, correctness, and security compliance for trust reads/writes; Influence roadmap planning for reliability and developer experience.

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