Sr. Principal Engineer - Authentication

ID.me • McLean, VA

97d • $261,000 - $350,000 • Onsite

About The Position

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. To learn more, visit https://network.id.me/.
Role Overview
The Sr. Principal Software Development Engineer will play an instrumental role in shaping the authentication experience for over 130 million ID.me customers. The Authentication team owns the end-to-end implementation of signing into an ID.me account across web and mobile surfaces. This team is responsible for account registration, authentication (including MFA) MFA Recovery, Account lockout, and general account security. This team is the front door to ID.me
We are looking for a very experienced hands-on technical leader with Authentication domain expertise and a proven ability to drive end-to-end engineering solutions.
This position will from our Mountain View, CA or McLean, VA office full-time in the office.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field of study.
• 15+ years of SaaS development experience using Java or Ruby or Javascript or Go or C++.
• 10+ years of experience building Authentication products or services, with first hand knowledge implementing major industry protocols, such as OIDC, SAML, OAuth 2.0.

Nice To Haves

• Masters degree and/or PhD in Computer Science or related field of study.
• At least 5 years of experience with at least one major public cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Significant level of ownership of systems and architecture, with proven experience designing and driving technical roadmaps, collaborating with stakeholders to make tradeoff and prioritization decisions.
• Experience moving an organization forward in best practices around tracking, observability, monitoring, and alerting.
• Deep understanding of web technologies, frameworks, programming design patterns and paradigms, and APIs.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with implementing Social Login, 2FA, and/or Passwordless authentication.
• Experience with threat modeling and security engineering.
• Experience with building or contributing to a fully automated CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience working in a startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture and technical roadmap for Authentication - owning all aspects of the tech stack and representing the domain in technical collaborations.
• Lead the implementation of an Authentication Platform of APIs and UI components for scale, security, and reliability.
• Design and Implement industry-leading authentication solutions for our business customers.
• Raise the bar for technical excellence, engineering best practices, testing strategies, and distributed system design through pairing, mentoring, architecture / code reviews, technical presentations, and knowledge sharing sessions.
• Exert significant influence on the overall vision and long-term goals of the company by co-leading roadmap planning with engineering and product leadership.
• Own end-to-end deliverables through committing quality code and overseeing the work of others, with sound judgment to know what is appropriate.

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: Principal
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees