Senior Software Engineer, Persona
Security
$190-250k
Offers Equity
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Identity verification infrastructure solution
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Identity verification infrastructure solution
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$190-250k
Offers Equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create the ideal identity verification experience for your business and customers.
Role
Who you are
- Experience - 5+ 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 behavioral patterns to provide a more holistic risk profile, beneficial in financial and insurance contexts
Recently, Persona partnered with Member Driven Technologies (MDT) to enhance identity verification for credit unions. This partnership enables credit unions to adjust their identity verification flows in real-time based on risk signals, improving user conversion and fraud deterrence. The collaboration aims to streamline operations and strengthen fraud prevention, both digitally and in branches. Since founding, Persona has been scaling its offerings and now boasts a worldwide presence, serving clients in nearly every country and supporting 20 languages.
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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)Bachelor's in Computer Science, Maths, Economics at Rice University. KPCB Engineering Fellow, then Engineer at Square.
Charles Yeh
(CTO)Studied Computer Science at Brown. Software Engineer at Zynga, and Technical Lead at Dropbox.
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