Software Development Engineer III

Software Development Engineer III

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.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Software Development Engineer III (SDE III) to join our growing infrastructure engineering team at ID.me. As an SDEIII, you'll have the opportunity to empower our internal product engineering teams by building and maintaining tools, templates, and automation that streamline the development lifecycle—from project initiation to production readiness.

ID.me is a platform company, embracing an API-first development strategy to ensure consistent, scalable, and reusable systems. As an SDE III, you will be instrumental in enabling engineers to rapidly bootstrap new projects (such as new API services), upgrade existing services to align with best practices, and ensure consistent adoption of production standards across the organization.

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

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of high-quality CLI tools, GitHub Actions, or other automation to apply standardized production readiness configurations (e.g., security settings, observability setup, infrastructure hooks).
• Own end-to-end delivery of medium to large platform features or services, from technical design through deployment and support.
• Mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and pairing.
• Collaborate, contribute to, and evolve the internal platform experience, ensuring high usability and developer satisfaction.
• Drive best practices in code quality, observability, security, and operational readiness. Contribute to the evolution of ID.me's platform by building foundational services and frameworks used across the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proficiency in a modern programming language (e.g., Java, Go, Python, Ruby, JavaScript).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a platform or product infrastructure team.
• Familiarity with modern CI/CD practices and DevOps tooling.
• Hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, or other cloud platforms.
• Experience with security compliance in enterprise environments (e.g., SOC2, FedRAMP).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially in technical contexts.
• Passion for mentorship, documentation, and elevating team performance.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi) and CI/CD systems.
• Experience building or contributing to internal development platforms, SDKs, or scaffolding tools.
• Understanding of production observability principles (logging, metrics, alerting).

Demonstrated ownership of at least one significant project or feature from design through launch.

Mountain View, CA Pay Range $168,926 - $204,000 USD