Software Engineer, Persona

Data Infrastructure

$130-200k

+ Equity

React

MongoDB

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Kafka

Airflow

MySQL

Snowflake

Flink

Ruby on Rails

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Identity verification infrastructure solution

Open for applications

Identity verification infrastructure solution

501-1000 employees

B2BSecurityEnterpriseCompliancePrivacyAPIAutomationIdentity

Open for applications

$130-200k

+ Equity

React

MongoDB

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Kafka

Airflow

MySQL

Snowflake

Flink

Ruby on Rails

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

501-1000 employees

B2BSecurityEnterpriseCompliancePrivacyAPIAutomationIdentity

Company mission

To humanize online identity by helping companies verify that their users are who they say they are.

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Who you are

3+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on data infrastructure or large-scale data systems
Proficiency in Python and familiarity with technologies like Kafka, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Airflow and Apache Flink
Experience designing and implementing scalable ETL pipelines and working with structured and unstructured data
Strong understanding of data modeling, including schema design and performance optimization for analytical and operational use cases
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working cross-functionally with product, data science, and operational teams
A passion for leveraging data to drive innovation

What the job involves

As an engineer on the Data Infrastructure team at Persona, you will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining the data platform that powers our data science and analytics applications
This is a highly cross-functional role—you will work on everything from deploying new cloud infrastructure to writing data pipelines to developing new product features that better deliver analytics for our customers, all while closely collaborating with product, data science, and post-sales teams
We are a small team where every member has a high degree of ownership of our stack, working to make Persona a more data-driven organization
Build and expand the data platform using cutting edge technologies for the cloud data stack
Design and implement efficient data models to power analytics and core product workflows
Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business and product needs into product features
Identify new opportunities to use data in transformative ways across product, data science, and business teams

Our take

Persona enables businesses to verify customer identities, fostering trust in online interactions and aiding in age verification, fraud prevention and account recovery. It offers a comprehensive suite of automated identity verification components with worldwide coverage that can be configured, branded and themed to create custom-tailored flows for any use case.

Businesses and governmental organizations can access Persona’s platform via an API, which supports various documents from government-issued IDs to biometrics, ensuring customers are who they claim to be. Persona’s platform also collects passive signals such as a user’s device, location and behavioural patterns to provide a more holistic risk profile, beneficial in financial and insurance contexts.

An impressive partnership with MDT saw Persona enable credit unions to adjust their identity verification flows in real-time, strengthening fraud prevention. The company continues to attract funding which supports the scaling of its offerings and reach. In fact, in 2025, it reached a $2 billion valuation, which showcases the success it has had.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

40% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.6)

Trustpilot (1.2)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Apr 2025

$200m

SERIES D

Sep 2021

$150m

SERIES C

Total funding: $417.6m

Company benefits

Professional Development
Catered meals
Wellness benefit
401(k)
Unlimited time off
Parental benefits
Mental health
Health and wellness
Bevsday (free drink on Wednesday)
Family planning

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Rick Song

(CEO & Co-founder)

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Maths, Economics at Rice University. KPCB Engineering Fellow, then Engineer at Square.

Charles Yeh

(CTO & Co-founder)

Studied Computer Science at Brown. Software Engineer at Zynga, and Technical Lead at Dropbox.

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