Security Software Engineer, Persona
$130-220k
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Identity verification infrastructure solution
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Identity verification infrastructure solution
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$130-220k
Offers Equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To humanize online identity by helping companies verify that their users are who they say they are.
Role
Who you are
- Experience - 3+ years of security software engineering experience at a fast-moving technology company, including experience with building performant, highly interactive web applications
- Passion for security - You should be excited about keeping your skills and knowledge sharp, and sharing that with your peers and the rest of the company
- 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 asked and make product suggestions and features that help push our product forward. You are naturally curious and embrace change
- Proactive thinking - You learn from your mistakes quickly, and know how to unblock yourself when needed. We’re looking for someone that can tell us how to solve our problems, instead of waiting to be told how to solve problems
- 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
What the job involves
- The Persona Security Team is looking for a software engineer to join us. You’ll own security sensitive libraries and components of our production platform. You'll play a pivotal role in fortifying our defenses against evolving threats
- Your mission: design, build and maintain security libraries and systems to protect our customers’ accounts and data in our platform. You'll have the opportunity to employ cutting-edge technologies, innovative strategies, and your expertise to thwart potential attacks before they disrupt our operations
- Own the systems used to encrypt our customers’ data
- Refine the authentication and authorization components in our product, used by our customers to access their accounts every day
- Design, build, and maintain flexible and reusable security libraries for other engineering teams at Persona to use
- Propose, build, and ship new security features in our product
- Participate in the on-call rotation for the Security Team
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.
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Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
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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