Software Development Engineer - Credentials

Staff Software Development Engineer - Credentials

Mountain View, California, United States

is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. Consumers can verify their identity with  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  at 20 federal agencies, 45 state government agencies, and 70+ healthcare organizations.

More than 600+ consumer brands use  to verify communities and user segments to honor service and build more authentic relationships. ’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.  is committed to “No Identity Left Behind” to enable all people to have a secure digital identity.

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is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer – Credential API to design and build the foundation of our credentialing platform — the API that issues, retrieves, and manages validated credential bundles (e.g., verified passport, driver’s license, validated domain, verified face) for both people and organizations.

As a key individual contributor, you’ll architect and implement the services that underpin ’s next-generation identity trust layer. You’ll work across identity, verification, and platform teams to deliver a secure, scalable, and high-performance API that enables the interoperability and integrity of digital credentials used by millions of users and trusted partners.

This position will be based full-time in our Mountain View, CA office.

• Design and implement the Credential API and its core services that issue, fetch, and manage credential attribute bundles for entities such as Person or Organization.
• Build RESTful and Graph
  
  QL endpoints that meet strict standards for reliability, latency, and security, and integrate seamlessly with both internal and external systems.
• Develop robust data models and storage patterns to represent credential provenance and relationships across relational and graph databases.
• Implement credential lifecycle flows — including creation, validation, renewal, and revocation — integrated with ’s identity verification and attribute validation systems (AVS, face, domain validation, etc.).
• Ensure the security and privacy of credential data through strong authentication, authorization, encryption, and audit practices.
• Collaborate closely with Platform, Identity, Security, and Partner Engineering teams to deliver end-to‑end features and integrations.
• Write high-quality, maintainable, and well‑tested code
  , including automated tests and observability instrumentation.
• Contribute to system design discussions
  , code reviews, and technical documentation to drive clarity and alignment across teams.
• Continuously optimize performance
  , scalability, and reliability for credential services in production environments.
• Stay current on emerging identity and credentialing standards (e.g., Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Identifiers, OIDC extensions) and bring new ideas into the product.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of professional experience developing backend services and APIs in production environments.
• 8+ years experience in at least one backend language (
  Python, Go, or Java
  ) and with modern frameworks.

• Demonstrated expertise in building and operating public-facing REST or Graph
  
  QL APIs at scale.
• Deep experience with relational databases (e.g., Postgre
  
  SQL) and No
  
  SQL or graph data stores
  .
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts
  , caching, asynchronous processing, and cloud-native patterns.
• Experience implementing authentication and authorization (OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, or custom schemes).
• Proven ability to design, document, and evolve APIs used by multiple internal and external consumers.
• Familiarity with ident…