ID.me - Principal Software Engineer, Data

• Bachelor’s or Graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience). • 10+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, distributed systems, and data architecture at a large-scale SaaS, fintech, identity, or platform company. • Demonstrated track record of stepping into complex, brownfield engineering environments, rapidly diagnosing architectural and business challenges, and defining and executing multi-quarter technical transformation roadmaps. • Deep expertise in designing, building, and evolving large-scale data architectures spanning relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), distributed event-driven systems, and graph or NoSQL data stores. • Strong proficiency in one or more modern backend programming languages (e.g., Go, Java, Python, Ruby, or Rust) and advanced SQL. • Proven ability to act as a force multiplier across an engineering organization—driving alignment among executives, product leaders, and engineers to turn ambiguous, company-wide problems into actionable execution plans. • Hands-on experience leading large-scale data migrations, decomposing monolithic databases, and establishing API-first data boundaries and data contracts without disrupting mission-critical production traffic. • Deep expertise with both relational database internals/scaling (e.g., PostgreSQL, AlloyDB, CloudSQL) and graph database architectures (e.g., Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, or similar) for relationship-driven identity and fraud use cases. • Experience architecting event-driven data platforms and real-time streaming pipelines (e.g., Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, Dataflow, Temporal) on major cloud providers (GCP or AWS). • Experience designing automated data governance, data retention, and privacy/encryption frameworks in highly regulated environments (e.g., FedRAMP, NIST, SOC2, GDPR). • Fluency with AI-assisted engineering workflows and experience designing data architectures that power AI/ML and analytical platforms. • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a natural ability to distill complex architectural trade-offs into clear strategic narratives for both technical and executive audiences. • 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. • $209,000 - $275,000 USD