Company Overview
ID.me is a high-growth enterprise software company that simplifies how people prove and share their identity online. The company empowers people to control their data through a portable and trusted login, which means they don’t need to create a new password when visiting sites that have the ID.me button. ID.me’s digital identity network has over 117 million registered members, and is used by fourteen federal agencies, agencies in 30 states and over 600 corporations for secure identity proofing and verification.
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. In addition to helping people control their credentials and data, the company’s “No Identity Left Behind” initiative strives to expand digital access and inclusion for all people. The company offers multiple pathways to identity verification – online self-serve, live video chat agents, and in person. ID.me is passionate about building a robust identity network that does not compromise access for traditionally underserved groups.
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ID.me has received numerous awards including Deloitte’s 2023 Technology Fast 500, Washington Business Journal’s Fastest Growing Companies, Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Brilliant Companies and Wall Street Journal’s Startup of the Year finalist. In recent quarters, ID.me announced it raised $132 million in Series D funding, led by Viking Global Investors with participation from CapitalG, Morgan Stanley Counterpoint, FTV Capital, PSP Growth, Auctus Investment Group, Moonshots Capital, and Scout Ventures. ID.me’s most recent round brings the total investment in ID.me to over $275 million since its founding in 2010.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Tech Lead Cloud Engineer V who will serve as a day to day technical thought leader on our growing Cloud Engineering team. We are looking for a talented, seasoned engineer who can hit the ground running, serve as a cloud SME, and to help design, develop, and eventually maintain the systems that allow us to scale as we grow. You will ensure that our cloud infrastructure is high performance, resilient, secure and observable.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team to build and operate a highly scalable and resilient infrastructure
- Become ID.me’s subject matter expert for our GCP cloud domains
- Introduce tools to facilitate greater automation and operability of services
- Design and develop automation for maintenance tasks and upgrades of database clusters and services
- Plan and lead complicated technical projects that interact with a wide variety of teams within the company
- Help define and iterate on processes to increase cloud engineering capabilities
- Utilize your deep experience and problem solving skills to help prevent and investigate production issues
- Maintain an audit-ready posture, and automate controls for security, compliance, and auditability
- Participate in on-call rotation and ensure uptime of services
Minimum Qualifications
- At least 7 years of experience
- Strong background with GCP technologies (Cloud SQL/Cloud Spanner/AlloyDB, GCS, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Artifact Registry/Container Registry, Cloud KMS, Stackdriver, Cloud Functions, Cloud DNS, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Certificate Manager, Cloud Build/Deployment Manager)
- Strong understanding of GCP resource and application scaling
- Experience with containers (Docker) building easy-to-use development environments
- Experience with end-to-end debugging of infrastructure performance & issues
- Solid understanding cloud-based application and infrastructure security best practices
- Strong understanding of Linux administration (Ubuntu)
- Strong understanding of IaC/orchestration tools (Chef, Ansible)
- Strong understanding of CI/CD and build toolchains (Terraform, GitHub Actions, Harness CD, etc)
- Experience managing and fine tuning persistence services, such as RDBMS (Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc)
- Understanding of observability tools (Honeycomb, Prometheus, Grafana, etc)
- Strong communication skills
- Experience in supporting a 24/7 infrastructure including on-call rotations
Vision: To be the world's leading digital identity network empowering people to control their own information and to prove their credentials across all channels: online, call center, and in-person.
Mission: To make the world a more trusted place by delivering the highest level of security with the least amount of friction at the lowest possible cost.
People: We have an audacious mission. We aim to fix the identity layer of the internet. Billions of people will live better lives with more trust and convenience thanks to ID.me. We are like Special Forces. We take on the most difficult challenges with amazing teammates.
At ID.me, we believe that an in-office culture fosters professional growth and development, mentorship, collaboration, and accelerated innovation. This position will be in-office based at one of our locations in either McLean, VA or Mountain View, CA. Working in an office together allows our culture to thrive and our team members to establish real connections with their coworkers and the opportunity for lifelong friendships. Our work is critical to protecting online identity and we’re confident that working together is how we’ll change the world.
The annual base salary listed below for this role is based on experience, skills, education, relevant training and geographic location. Company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity, and benefits are available depending on the role.
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.
The above represents the anticipated total rewards package for this job requisition. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on qualifications, professional experiences, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location, and other job related factors.
ID.me maintains a work environment free from discrimination, where employees are treated with dignity and respect. All ID.me employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling our commitment to equal employment opportunity. ID.me does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. ID.me adheres to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline. In addition, ID.me's policy is to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances where a particular employee works. Upon request we will provide you with more information about such accommodations.
Please review our Privacy Policy, including our CCPA policy, at id.me/privacy. If you provide ID.me with any personally identifiable information you confirm that you have read and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set out in our Privacy Policy.
ID.me participates in E-Verify.