Senior Software Engineer, Platform (SF)

Company: Persona
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: November 4, 2024

Job Description:

Founded in 2018, is a 250-person tech startup based in San Francisco, backed by Index Ventures, Coatue, Founders Fund, and First Round Capital. Persona offers flexible building blocks that help businesses fight fraud, stay compliant, and build trust among their customers. For example, Coursera uses Persona to ensure the right person is earning each degree, OpenAI uses Persona to prevent the misuse of ChatGPT, and Lime checks the ages of customers before they ride electric scooters or bikes. To learn more about our company and team, check out this .About the roleWe're building the foundational identity platform that other developers and builders rely on to model and solve their identity problems. Our platform, which is designed to support anything from small business to Fortune 10 companies, makes it easy to manage, build, and automate on top of sensitive data in a safe, secure, and performant manner. We're obsessed with finding the sweet spot between functionality and a great builder experience so our customers can be a lot more productive and functional with us than the tools they use today.What you'll do at Persona

• Design, build, and ship foundational aspects of the identity platform including (but not limited to) workflows automation, orchestration primitives, data storage primitives.
• Work with designers, product managers, customers and other developers to build identity solutions that solve challenging problems we face in the identity ecosystem today.
• Handle all different types of scale - from helping a new start up automate their manual processes to supporting enterprises with their Super Bowl Sunday scale.What you'll bring to Persona
  • Product-thinker - You build products in a way that maximizes product value while minimizing complexity. You understand and can resolve tensions between product requirements and engineering design for large-scale projects.
  • Innovative mindset - You go beyond implementing what is tasked and make product suggestions and features that help push our product forward. You are naturally curious and embrace change.
  • Independent thinking - You learn from your mistakes quickly, and know how to unblock yourself when needed. You give yourself agency to take on new problems and drive them to impactful solutions.
  • Perfect is the enemy of good - You take pride in understanding and solving problems as soon as possible, and learn quickly from mistakes in the spirit of growing as an engineer.
  • Collaborative spirit - Collaboration isn't just a buzzword for you, it's your secret to success. You leverage the diverse perspectives of your teammates and sometimes go out of your way to learn other functions to get the job done.Nice to have
    • 5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
    • Experience with our tech stack: React, Ruby on Rails, Kubernetes, Google Cloud (GCP), MySQL, MongoDB.$190,000 - $260,000 a yearOffer and benefitsFor this role, the estimated base salary range is between $190,000 - $260,000. Base salaries are just one component of the total compensation package and are determined by a number of factors such as years of experience, expertise, qualifications and more. Salary ranges reflect regional market standards for our SF and NY office locations. In addition to base salary, we offer competitive equity packages that play a big part in recognizing you for the huge impact you will have on helping us achieve our mission. Please note, the salary range is a guideline that is subject to change without notice. We are proud to offer best-in-class benefits at Persona. From 401K matching and parental leave, to quarterly company-wide mental health days, unlimited PTO, family planning and wellness stipends, we constantly seek ways to continue embodying our value of People First.At Persona, we believe in people above all else. We strive to create an inclusive environment where everyone's contributions are valued and their growth is supported. We're honored to be recognized as one of , a testament to our commitment to fostering a world-class team. You can read what it's like to work at Persona on .
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