ID.me · 1 day ago
Senior Engineering Manager - Platform
Mountain View, California, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$235K/yr - $284K/yr
8+ years expID.me is a next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies online identity verification. The Senior Engineering Manager will lead the Platform Engineering organization, focusing on cloud infrastructure, site reliability engineering, and developer tooling to ensure reliable and secure platforms for all engineering teams.
Cloud Data ServicesCyber SecurityFraud DetectionIdentity ManagementPrivacySoftware
Responsibilities
Define and drive the long-term strategy for Cloud Infrastructure, SRE, and Developer Experience platforms that support all ID.me services
Own reliability, scalability, and performance for mission-critical platform services and infrastructure layers
Set the vision and roadmap for internal developer tooling, including CI/CD, local development environments, service scaffolding, and platform APIs
Partner with engineering, product, and security leadership to align platform investments with business needs, regulatory requirements, and growth trajectories
Establish and uphold SRE best practices across availability, incident response, capacity planning, and observability
Ensure the platform meets high availability and performance SLAs for both internal development teams and customer-facing systems
Drive a culture of “automate everything,” reducing operational toil and improving system resilience
Oversee the evolution of cloud-native infrastructure using Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and modern orchestration frameworks
Accelerate migration toward scalable, reliable, and cost-effective infrastructure patterns
Develop secure-by-default platform capabilities that align with FedRAMP, NIST 800-63, and other regulatory standards
Build frameworks, SDKs, APIs, and shared services that streamline how engineers build, deploy, observe, and maintain applications
Improve development velocity through tooling modernization, improved abstractions, guardrails, and self-service workflows
Collaborate with engineering teams to understand pain points and deliver solutions that reduce friction and inconsistency across the stack
Mentor, coach, and develop engineering managers and senior engineers; foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration
Build and scale a world-class platform engineering organization with strong execution and high trust
Advocate for platform thinking and reliability best practices across the company, including with executives and product leaders
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
8+ years of engineering experience, including 5-6 years leading engineering teams or managers
5+ years of experience in SRE, cloud infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering
Demonstrated experience operating and scaling cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Preferred
Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes ecosystems, Infrastructure-as-Code, and modern DevOps/SRE practices
Experience building and maintaining internal platform services, tooling, frameworks, or developer portals
Proven track record scaling high-performing engineering teams and delivering measurable reliability and productivity improvements
Familiarity with distributed systems, service meshes, observability stacks, and CI/CD pipeline design
Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and advocate for platform investments
Experience driving adoption of platform capabilities across a large engineering organization
Benefits
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts (medical, limited purpose, dependent care, commuter benefit accounts)
Basic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance
401(k) with company match
Parental leave
Ability to participate in unlimited paid time off subject to the terms and conditions of the PTO policy, including 8 company wide holidays
Short and long-term disability insurance
Accident and critical illness insurance
Referral bonus policy
Employee assistance program
Pet insurance
Travel assistant program
Wellbeing and childcare discounts
Benefit advocates
Learning and development benefit
Company
ID.me
ID.me is a digital identity wallet that allows users to securely prove their identity online.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
ID.me has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (12)
2024 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$814.25MKey Investors
Ribbit CapitalAres ManagementViking Global Investors
2025-09-03Series E· $65M
2025-01-30Debt Financing· $275M
2024-11-25Secondary Market· $67M
Leadership Team
Blake Hall
Co-Founder and CEO
Samantha Greenberg
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
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