Software Development Engineer - Data Acquisition & Normailization

ID.me • Mountain View, CA

23h • Onsite

About The Position

ID.me is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to join the Data Acquisition & Normalization team. This team is responsible for building and operating the integrations that power the Identity Trust Graph — acquiring, normalizing, and refreshing identity attributes from authoritative and commercial sources.
In this role, you will contribute to building and maintaining connectors, data pipelines, and normalization services that ensure ID.me delivers reliable, real-time validation of identity attributes at internet scale. You will work alongside experienced engineers and partner with Product Managers from the Persons and Organizations teams to help translate validation contracts into working integrations.
This position is based in our Mountain View, CA office, 5 days per week.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 4+ years of experience developing web applications using OOP languages such as Java, Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust, or C++.
• Exposure to data acquisition or integration work, including APIs, screen scraping, ETL, or normalization pipelines.
• Experience building systems in Docker, Kubernetes or Nomad and services in a containerized, cloud-based, infrastructure-as-code driven ecosystem such as GCP.
• Ability to deliver features end to end, including automated test coverage, observability, monitoring, and documentation.
• Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly and work collaboratively within a team.
• Proficiency and strong interest in AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code or Codex) to accelerate delivery and code quality.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with operating data pipelines with reliability and SLA requirements.
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts, caching, asynchronous processing, and cloud-native patterns.
• Exposure to authentication and authorization standards (OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, or custom schemes).
• Familiarity with identity and credential verification systems, including data validation, proofing, or trust scoring.
• Exposure to event-driven architectures (Kafka, SNS/SQS) and patterns for decoupled service communication.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containerization and deployment pipelines.
• Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and incident response best practices.
• Awareness of compliance and security requirements for sensitive data (NIST, FedRAMP, ISO 27001).
• Bonus: Exposure to FinTech, identity, or data aggregation companies (e.g., Plaid, Yodlee, Envestnet).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain connectors to government registries, telcos, licensing authorities, and commercial data providers.
• Standardize and reconcile heterogeneous data formats into clean schemas usable by the Identity Trust Graph.
• Monitor and help resolve upstream source changes; contribute to retries, fallbacks, and error handling to improve pipeline reliability.
• Contribute to the Attribute Validation Service (AVS) by adding trusted data that validates identity attributes against sources of record.
• Help deliver clean and validated attribute data to downstream consumers including Wallet, Fraud, and Domains.
• Assist in reporting coverage and freshness metrics to Product, Ops, and Analytics stakeholders.
• Handle sensitive data in accordance with NIST, ISO 27001, and FedRAMP standards.
• Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code, including automated tests and observability instrumentation.
• Participate in system design discussions, code reviews, and technical documentation to support team alignment.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level