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Principal Security Engineer

McLean, Virginia · Mountain View, California, United States

Company Overview

ID.me is the next-generation digital identity network that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. Consumers can verify their identity with ID.me once and seamlessly log in across websites without having to create a new login or verify their identity again. 130 million members experience streamlined login and identity verification with ID.me at 16 federal agencies, 30 states, and 56 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 https://network.id.me/.

Role Overview

ID.me is looking for a Principal Security Engineer to add to our growing security team. If you love innovation, here's your chance to make a career of it by advancing the digital identity ecosystem. 

We are seeking a talented Principal Security Engineer who enjoys the challenges of combining software and systems engineering to design, build, run, and automate distributed, fault-tolerant security solutions at scale. You will ensure that our security infrastructure is high performance, resilient, secure and observable. 

The Principal Security Engineer will also have the opportunity to provide thought leadership, research, and innovation on a broad scale.

This is an onsite position based in our Mountain View, CA office.

Responsibilities

  • Exercise a longer-term, more strategic outlook, influencing people within team, within Security, and within peer teams
  • Set technology direction and roadmap for development and continuous improvement of security infrastructure
  • Lead system and solution design for security infrastructure across the team and ensure design is well-understood and documented
  • Optimize security systems for the future and not just for an immediate need or benefit
  • Identify and drive opportunities to improve reliability, stability, and performance
  • Ensure all systems are optimized for ease of maintenance and have in place monitoring, logging, business continuity, scaling capabilities
  • Ensure security infrastructure systems are replaceable with the least amount of effort necessary
  • Dig deep into complex problems either lacking a clear approach or with a high degree of execution risk and find an appropriate path forward
  • Maintain many of the essential cross-team and cross-functional relationships necessary for the team's success
  • Be a role model for the team and the security organization and shape the culture
  • Help, teach, and mentor the less experienced engineers on the team
  • Define standards and best practices for the team and the security organization
  • Improve the quality of the output of the team - code, technical documentation, operational processes

Ideal Qualifications

The qualifications below are ideal, but not all are required.  We encourage candidates to apply if they satisfy some, but not all of the qualifications.

  • 12+ years of experience in security engineering, systems engineering, software engineering, or SRE roles
  • 7+ years experience engineering, running, and automating security infrastructure 
  • Strong background with public cloud technologies, preferably GCP and AWS
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems and infrastructure security best practices
  • Strong background with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
  • Experience with scaled indexed logging or SIEM solutions (e.g. Splunk, ElasticSearch, Exabeam)
  • Experience with container computing and container orchestration (e.g. proprietary systems such as GKE, multi-cloud solutions such as Kubernetes, or Nomad)
  • Experience in Linux/Unix administration and solid networking knowledge
  • Experience in scripting or software development (i.e. Python, Ruby, Go)
  • Experience with observability tools (Honeycomb, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, etc.)
  • The ability to take a systematic approach to analyzing, troubleshooting, and diagnosing system problems to identify, locate, resolve, and repair problems
  • Possess a breadth of engineering skills with an interest in service reliability, automation, monitoring, and capacity planning

Bonus Experience

  • Experience with CI/CD practices and platform tools (Jenkins, CircleCI, Github etc)
  • Experience with Information Security Compliance, (SOC, FedRAMP, ISO, etc)
  • Industry security certifications, such as GCIH/ECIH, Security+, or related

 Ideal candidate will thrive in the following culture:

  • Must have an obsession for building quality products 
  • Ability to thrive when there are changing priorities and shifting of gears
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Must be a team player with a strong, self-managing work ethic
  • Must be a self-starter with a passion for software engineering, learning and continuous improvement

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The annual base salary listed does 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

$203,183 - $274,302 USD

Mountain View, CA Pay Range

$241,098 - $290,600 USD

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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