Lead Software Engineer, Identity

Role overview Lead engineering work on backend identity services that collect, resolve, and maintain large volumes of consumer signals. The systems support identity profiles and platform integrations, so the role combines distributed systems and data engineering with a focus on availability, speed, scale, and transparent data handling. You’ll help shape architecture and technical direction while working across engineering, product, and data teams.

Responsibilities - Design and build APIs and backend services for identity resolution, graph transparency, and integrations. - Develop and tune event-driven pipelines and workflows that process high volumes of signals. - Deploy and operate cloud-native services on Kubernetes, using repeatable deployment practices. - Improve reliability, observability, scalability, and performance across services and data pipelines. - Work with product, engineering, and data partners to deliver end-to-end identity capabilities. - Mentor engineers and influence architecture and roadmap decisions.

Requirements - At least five years in backend or data engineering, including work at scale. - Strong proficiency in Python, Java, or Scala, with experience in APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven design. - Hands-on knowledge of Kafka or a comparable event platform, data processing frameworks such as Spark, Hive, or Flink, and workflow schedulers such as Airflow or Luigi. - Experience with Kubernetes; familiarity with EKS, Helm, or service meshes is relevant. - Solid SQL, data modeling, and AWS cloud skills. - Familiarity with columnar or NoSQL databases, plus a record of technical leadership, communication, and mentoring.

Nice to have Experience with large-scale or multi-tenant systems, real-time streaming, open table formats such as Iceberg, Hudi, or Delta Lake, or security, compliance, and privacy in identity systems.

Benefits and work setup Benefits include unlimited paid time off, medical, dental, and vision coverage, employee equity, discounts, wellness classes, and pet insurance. The stated annual salary range is $150,000–$200,000, depending on location and experience.