Principal Engineer - Profiles

Principal Engineer - Work Profiles

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 Principal Software Development Engineer to serve as the technical authority across the Work Profiles and Communities platforms — the systems that define how individuals prove affiliation with organizations, institutions, and professional communities, and how that proof is structured, issued, and reused across 's ecosystem.

Work Profiles and Communities are among 's highest-growth domains. Work Profiles enables companies and government agencies to define precise eligibility criteria — employees, contractors, licensed professionals, authorized signers — and verify individuals against those rules at the right assurance level, from low-friction consumer offers to high-assurance regulated transactions (FDIC, IRS, HHS, SSA). Communities extends this capability to professional and brand communities: fitness professionals for Lululemon, trade contractors for Home Depot, corporate employees for Verizon.

Together, these systems must scale to thousands of distinct profiles, support a "validate once, reuse everywhere" model across 's partner network, and be deliverable to customer specification within weeks.

This role calls for deep expertise in data modeling and API design — specifically how person-to-organization and person-to-credential relationships are represented, how eligibility rules and affiliation evidence are structured into queryable profiles, and how those profiles are issued to users' wallets and federated via OIDC to downstream partners. You will own the data model strategy, API contract integrity, and long-term architecture for both platforms, and you will set the technical patterns that allow  to scale community delivery into a high-velocity, self-service factory.

You'll partner closely with Product, Architecture, Identity, Security, Compliance, and enterprise customer teams to deliver a trustworthy, scalable foundation used by millions of members and hundreds of partners.

• Own the data model strategy and long-term architecture for Work Profiles and Communities, including how person-to-organization, person-to-credential, and domain-to-organization relationships are represented, validated, and queried.
• Own the API contracts across both platforms — including the Affiliation Profile API, Work Profile issuance and lifecycle APIs, and the OIDC extensions that surface organizational claims to downstream partners — covering versioning, compatibility, and governance.
• Set…