Principal Security Engineer – Reliability Engineering @ ID.me

Principal Security Engineer - Reliability EngineeringMountain View, California, United States

Company Overview

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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.

ID.me’s digital identity network has over 117 million registered members, used by fourteen federal agencies, agencies in 30 states, and over 600 corporations for secure identity proofing and verification.

ID.me’s technology meets federal standards for consumer authentication and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider.

The company’s No Identity Left Behind initiative strives to expand digital access and inclusion for all people.

ID.me has received numerous awards, including Deloitte’s 2023 Technology Fast 500 and Washington Business Journal’s Fastest Growing Companies.

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.

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
• 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 minimal effort
• Dig deep into complex problems and find an appropriate path forward
• Maintain 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 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. GKE, Kubernetes, 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 systematically analyze, troubleshoot, and diagnose system 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 a culture that values quality products, adaptability, strong communication skills, teamwork, and a self-starting work ethic.

Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary listed below for this role is based on experience, skills, education, relevant training, and geographic location.

Company bonus, equity, and benefits are available depending on the role.

ID.me offers comprehensive medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, 401(k) with company match, parental leave, unlimited paid time off, and more.

Mountain View, CA Pay Range : $224,000 $280,948 USD

ID.me maintains a work environment free from discrimination and adheres to principles of equal employment opportunity. ID.

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