Software Engineer III - DevEx

Company Overview

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

Role Overview We are seeking a Software Development Engineer III (SDE III) to join our growing infrastructure engineering team at ID.me. As an SDEIII, you'll have the opportunity to empower our internal product engineering teams by building and maintaining tools, templates, and automation that streamline the development lifecycle-from project initiation to production readiness.

ID.me is a platform company, embracing an API-first development strategy to ensure consistent, scalable, and reusable systems. As an SDE III, you will be instrumental in enabling engineers to rapidly bootstrap new projects (such as new API services), upgrade existing services to align with best practices, and ensure consistent adoption of production standards across the organization.

This role is based out of our Mountain View, CA office or Mclean, VA office , and requires full-time in-office attendance .

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of high-quality CLI tools, GitHub Actions, or other automation to apply standardized production readiness configurations (e.g., security settings, observability setup, infrastructure hooks).
• Own end-to-end delivery of medium to large platform features or services, from technical design through deployment and support.
• Mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and pairing.
• Collaborate, contribute to, and evolve the internal platform experience, ensuring high usability and developer satisfaction.
• Drive best practices in code quality, observability, security, and operational readiness.

Contribute to the evolution of ID.me's platform by building foundational services and frameworks used across the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

The annual base salary listed does not include a company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity and benefits which will be determined based on experience, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location and 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.

U.S. Pay Range

$139,050-$159,650 USD

Mountain View, CA Pay Range

$168,926-$204,000 USD

ID.me is a full-time, in-office culture. Unless a specific job description explicitly states otherwise, all roles are on-site five days per week at one of our offices in McLean, VA; Mountain View, CA; New York City, NY; or Tampa, FL. Certain roles - such as field-based sales or other remote-by-design positions - may have different work arrangements as noted in their individual postings.

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.

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