Principal Engineer (Person & Trust Platform)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 30, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jul 9, 2026. ID.me scores B on the Alion truth index.
Join ID.me as a Principal Software Development Engineer, where you will serve as the technical authority across the Person and Trust platforms. You will own the data model strategy, API contracts, and long-term architecture, and set technical direction for the domain. This role requires deep expertise in data modeling and graph structures, as well as experience in cloud-native infrastructure and regulated environments. Enjoy a range of benefits, including company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision plans, paid parental leave, generous paid time off, and remote opportunities.
Missions
- Ownership of the data model strategy, API contracts, and long-term architecture across the Person API, Trust Service, and Inspection Catalog.
- Setting technical direction, establishing patterns and contracts that other teams build against, and partnering closely with Product, Architecture, Identity, Security, and Compliance.
- Mentoring staff and senior engineers, raising the bar for data modeling, API design, and trust architecture across the organization.
Profil recherché
- The role calls for deep expertise in data modeling and graph structures, applied to how verification and validation evidence and the resulting trust decisions are represented and queried- Deep expertise in data modeling and graph data structures, including designing schemas and relationships that remain correct, performant, and auditable at scale
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time as a recognized technical authority for a complex domain spanning multiple systems
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated ability to set technical strategy and drive alignment across engineering teams without direct authority
- Proven track record designing and owning APIs and data contracts for source-of-truth systems used by internal and external consumers
- Hands-on experience with graph databases and the modeling tradeoffs between graph and relational representations of connected identity data - this is central to how we represent Person-to-SSN, Person-to-Face, and Person-to-Legal relationships
- Experience modeling evidence and confidence scoring into a coherent, queryable record - specifically connecting inspection evidence from the Inspection Catalog to trust decisions in the Trust Service
- Experience building or owning systems that model, store, and maintain person or entity attributes and relationships at scale
- Expertise in NIST 800-63 IAL2/AAL2 standards, including evidence requirements, verification methods, and identity lifecycle management
- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
- Experience operating in regulated environments (security, compliance, or data privacy requirements)
- Familiarity with emerging identity and credentialing standards (e.g., Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Identifiers, OIDC extensions)
- Excellent communication skills and a track record of influencing technical direction across an organization