Senior Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision, architecture, and multi-year roadmap for Identity & Trust, including authentication, authorization, KYC/identity verification, PII protection, secure document processing, deduplication, and related trust capabilities.
• Lead complex, ambiguous initiatives across multiple services and teams from problem definition and architecture through implementation, rollout, and long-term operation.
• Design highly available distributed systems and APIs using microservices, event-driven architectures, Kubernetes, Kafka, DynamoDB, and MySQL, emphasizing security, privacy, reliability, and regulatory requirements.
• Architect solutions involving OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, RBAC/ABAC, MFA, identity federation, KYC, PII tokenization, data vaulting, secure file ingestion and scanning, and user/entity deduplication.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns, technical standards, APIs, documentation, and platform primitives.
• Drive reliability, observability, SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and production readiness.
• Lead responsible adoption of agentic workflows and multi-agent systems for engineering, testing, debugging, operations, and analysis, with evaluation, security, and human-in-the-loop guardrails.
• Mentor Staff and Senior engineers and provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, RFCs, and design reviews.
• Partner with Product, Security, Risk, Data Science, Design, Analytics, Infrastructure, Compliance, and executive stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with progression into Staff or Senior Staff-level technical leadership.
• Experience defining and executing technical strategy for large-scale distributed systems or platform infrastructure.
• Experience leading architecture and delivery across multiple engineering teams and organizational boundaries.
• Deep hands-on experience designing and operating secure, highly available distributed backend systems at scale.
• Expertise in identity, trust, security, privacy, or regulated-data systems.
• Strong understanding of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, RBAC/ABAC, MFA, identity federation, and token management.
• Experience with KYC/identity verification, fraud or risk systems, PII tokenization, data vaults, encryption, secure document processing, identity resolution, or user deduplication.
• Production experience with Okta, Auth0, Keycloak, or comparable identity infrastructure.
• Proficiency in at least one of Java, C#, Go, Kotlin, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience with REST APIs, SQL/NoSQL data stores, Kafka or equivalent streaming platforms, Kubernetes, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with SLOs, observability, incident response, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and production reliability.
• Hands-on experience building AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows, including orchestration, tool use, evaluation, security boundaries, and guardrails.
• Exceptional architectural judgment, communication, and mentoring skills.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or ChatGPT.

Nice to Have

• Experience in FinTech, regulated industries, identity, fraud, privacy, security, or compliance-sensitive environments.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary: $279,000–$341,000, plus equity and benefits.
• Hybrid position requiring in-person work at the Mountain View headquarters two days per week.