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Staff Software Engineer – Trust Service Team

ID.me · Mountain View, California, United States

Posted about 2 months ago

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This role has been open
53 days
ID.me's roles stay open a median of 54 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of ID.me's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at ID.me
high
35 stale, 1 reposted of 54 open
Hiring momentum
73 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-26

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from ID.me's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for ID.me.

About this role

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Trust Service team at ID.me, you will architect and lead the development of the Trust Graph, which is critical for verifying identity claims for over 152 million users. Your role involves driving architectural decisions, ensuring the reliability and correctness of the service, and mentoring other engineers. You will collaborate across teams to maintain API contracts and influence the technical direction of the Trust Service, ensuring it meets high standards of performance and security.

Our read on this posting3.0out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of ID.me as an employer.

What you need

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating high-availability, correctness-critical backend services
  • Proven ability to lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives from definition through delivery with minimal oversight
  • Deep comfort with relational databases — designing schemas, writing complex queries, reasoning about query performance, and managing safe schema evolution in production
  • Experience designing and versioning REST APIs and owning the contracts that downstream teams and SDKs depend on
  • Proficiency with AI-assisted development tooling (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) with a commitment to an AI-first engineering culture that maximizes team quality and velocity

Nice to have

  • Deep experience with Java or another JVM language, including modern language features applied to production systems
  • Familiarity with graph or highly relational data models — entity relationships, traversal patterns, and the tradeoffs between different read/write shapes at scale
  • Comfort reasoning about identity trust decisions: what it means for an identity claim to be verified, how different inspection methods vary in reliability, and how temporal decay or expiration affects downstream access
  • Experience with identity standards such as NIST 800-63-3, OAuth2, or OpenID Connect, particularly in the context of federal or regulated-industry deployments
  • Proven ability to own and evolve platform APIs consumed by multiple internal teams — understanding the full lifecycle of a contract from design through versioning and deprecation

What you get

  • 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
  • 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

Worth weighing

  • The role requires in-office work five days a week, which may not suit all candidates.
  • The salary range is broad and final offers may vary based on multiple factors, which could lead to uncertainty in compensation expectations.
  • The position involves significant responsibility for system correctness and reliability, which may lead to high-pressure situations.
  • The use of AI tools is emphasized, which may require adaptability to new technologies and methodologies.

Summarised from ID.me's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by ID.me on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-26. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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