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ID.me
Full time
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USA
10/29/2026
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Mountain View, CA

Responsibilities

Own the architecture and long-term strategy for testing automation frameworks and testing infrastructure across ID.me services.
Define end-to-end and integration testing strategies for asynchronous, event-driven, eventually consistent, and distributed systems.
Establish testing-in-production practices including canary deployments, progressive rollouts, synthetic monitoring, and automated rollback triggers.
Set standards for automated testing of authentication, authorization, secrets management, and tenant isolation.
Integrate automated tests into organization-wide CI/CD pipelines and quality gates.
Build evaluation pipelines for AI-assisted features and LLM agents and promote AI-assisted test authoring, planning, and code review.
Partner with Security, Platform, Product, and engineering teams to improve testability, coverage, and quality practices.
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers on test architecture and strategy.
Debug and root-cause issues across frontend, backend, APIs, and distributed services.
Define and track reliability, quality, and evaluation-accuracy metrics.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience in modern web applications and distributed systems, or equivalent advanced-degree experience including a PhD with 5+ years.
Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, and Java.
Hands-on experience with Playwright, Jest, API automation, or software and AI evaluation frameworks.
Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions or ArgoCD.
Ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives and influence engineering standards.
Experience mentoring senior engineers and raising quality standards across teams.
Strong written and verbal communication across engineering, product, and leadership.
Preferred experience with identity and access management technologies including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML 2.0, SCIM 2.0, enterprise identity providers, RBAC/ReBAC, and multi-tenant authorization.
Preferred experience with testing operations, contract testing, performance/load testing, observability, chaos engineering, and cloud or container platforms.
Preferred experience building LLM-agent evaluation frameworks, benchmark datasets, production AI monitoring, adversarial testing, and RAG pipelines.
Background in identity verification, fraud detection, or regulated industries is preferred.

Benefits

Full-time, in-office work five days per week in McLean, Mountain View, New York City, or Tampa unless otherwise specified.
Medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, life and AD&D insurance, and disability insurance.
401(k) with company match, parental leave, unlimited paid time off subject to policy, and eight company-wide holidays.
Accident and critical illness insurance, employee assistance program, pet insurance, travel assistance, wellbeing and childcare discounts, benefit advocates, referral bonus policy, and learning and development benefits.

Salary: $174k - $229k/yr

ID.me

ID.me builds a secure digital identity network and wallet used for identity proofing, sign-in, and community verification across government, healthcare, and commerce. The company sells authentication and verification services to agencies and enterprises, including NIST 800-63-3 IAL2/AAL2–approved...

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