Software Engineer, Persona
Compute
$130-220k
Offers equity
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Identity verification infrastructure solution
Open for applications
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
- BA/BS in computer science, software engineering or equivalent experience
- 2+ years of work experience as an infrastructure engineer working with cloud-based infrastructure, online data stores and infrastructure-as-code pipelines
- Experience in cloud-based infrastructure, familiarity with modern networking concepts and experience managing infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code practices
- Experience managing and scaling containerized software deployment systems such as Kubernetes
- Experience in Software development in one or more of the general-purpose programming languages: Ruby, Go, Python, Java, etc
- Experience in working in high-energy small startup environments
- Knowledge of and expertise in software engineering best practices for software development life cycle, including requirements gathering, design, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Ability to communicate effectively with users, technical teams, and management
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to thrive in a fully remote infrastructure engineering team environment
What the job involves
- As a member of our Infrastructure team at Persona, you will be responsible for building, operating, and monitoring the foundational components upon which our services are built
- You will help empower our engineering organization to deliver product features to our customers rapidly, with high scalability, excellent resilience, and cost-effectiveness
- Embrace and champion engineering best practices within the product engineering teams
- Work closely with product teams to plan and build scalable, resilient and cost-effective infrastructure systems that meet launch goals, reach new markets and scale with product demand
- Partner with fellow engineering teams to deliver on complex initiatives together
- Develop simple, elegant solutions to complex problems
- You will work in a solution stack that extends all the way from complex back-end data through web services to highly usable web-based user interfaces
- You will be able to directly shape system design, development methodologies, and implementation technologies
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
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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