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Staff Software Engineer – AI Enablement

ID.me
Location
Mountain View, California, United States
Posted
1 month ago
Department
Engineering
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • Bachelor’s or Graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience developing backend systems, distributed architectures, or core platform tools.
  • 2+ years of experience operating explicitly at a Staff or Principal engineering scope.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership, including mentoring 2+ engineers and leading architecture review processes.
  • Strong hands-on coding skills in modern programming languages such as Java, Python, or Go.
  • Deep experience in microservices architecture, RESTful web services, and event-driven architectures.
Nice to have
  • Hands-on experience building agentic workflows, multi-agent systems, and LLM integrations using LangGraph, AWS Bedrock, OpenAI API, and Anthropic API.
  • Extensive, practical experience specifically using Terraform for cloud provisioning, state management, and scalable infrastructure deployment.
  • Experience developing Domain-Specific Languages (DSL), Finite State Machines (FSM), and dynamic agent routing algorithms.
  • Strong experience with Redis, Kafka, PostgreSQL, NoSQL databases, and streaming platforms.
  • Practical experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud deployment on AWS.
What the job really is

As a Staff Software Engineer at ID.me, you will focus on enhancing the internal developer experience by designing and building developer tools, automation infrastructure, and AI-driven systems. Your responsibilities will include architecting internal platforms, developing multi-agent workflows, and implementing stateful context management to streamline engineering workflows. This role requires hands-on development and collaboration with various teams to create efficient, high-velocity development ecosystems.

Benefits
  • 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.
  • 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.
Things to weigh
  • Role is focused entirely on internal developer experience, not customer-facing products.
  • Position requires full-time in-office attendance with no remote or hybrid options.
  • Relocation assistance and visa sponsorship are not offered for this role.
Job score3.6/5
Benefits5/5
Freshness4/5
Career value4/5
Role clarity5/5
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