Staff Software Engineer (Trust Service Team)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 20, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jun 18, 2026. ID.me scores B on the Alion truth index.
Join our team as a Staff Software Engineer in the Trust Service Team. In this role, you will be the technical anchor for the service, driving architectural decisions, setting standards for correctness and reliability, and leading complex cross-team initiatives. You will own the technical vision and architecture for the Trust Service, steward the API contracts and data model, provide technical leadership and mentorship, collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensure reliability, performance, and security, and influence the roadmap.
Missions
- Architect and lead the technical vision and architecture for the Trust Service, including the data model, API surface, and operational characteristics.
- Own the REST API contracts and inspection data model that downstream services depend on, leading decisions about versioning strategy and backwards compatibility.
- Serve as the technical anchor for the team, setting the standard for code quality, system design, and engineering best practices, and mentoring other engineers.
Profil recherché
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience influencing technical direction across engineering, product, and security stakeholders- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives from definition through delivery with minimal oversight
- Deep comfort with relational databases - designing schemas, writing complex queries, reasoning about query performance, and managing safe schema evolution in production
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating high-availability, correctness-critical backend services
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Experience designing and versioning REST APIs and owning the contracts that downstream teams and SDKs depend on
- Proficiency with AI-assisted development tooling (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) with a commitment to an AI-first engineering culture that maximizes team quality and velocity
- Proven ability to own and evolve platform APIs consumed by multiple internal teams - understanding the full lifecycle of a contract from design through versioning and deprecation
- Experience working in regulated industries such as government, healthcare, or financial services
- Experience with identity standards such as NIST 800-63-3, OAuth2, or OpenID Connect, particularly in the context of federal or regulated-industry deployments
- Track record of improving engineering culture through documentation, technical standards, architectural review, and developer experience improvements
- Comfort reasoning about identity trust decisions: what it means for an identity claim to be verified, how different inspection methods vary in reliability, and how temporal decay or expiration affects downstream access
- Familiarity with graph or highly relational data models - entity relationships, traversal patterns, and the tradeoffs between different read/write shapes at scale
- Deep experience with Java or another JVM language, including modern language features applied to production systems