Description:

Persona is a configurable identity platform designed for businesses in a digital-first world, focusing on verifying individuals and organizations.
The company serves a wide range of leading companies, including Instacart and OpenAI, to enhance security and prevent fraud.
The Senior Software Engineer will join the Online Data Stores team, which is a critical part of the Infrastructure team at Persona.
The role involves building, maintaining, and evolving data storage solutions that power the application stack, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
Responsibilities include designing and developing high-performance data stores, collaborating with other teams, implementing best practices, and contributing to automation and observability.
The position requires participation in code reviews, mentoring junior engineers, and working closely with product teams to build scalable infrastructure systems.
The Infrastructure team operates fully remote, with members across the US and Canada.

Requirements:

A BA/BS in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experience is required.
Candidates must have 5+ years of software engineering experience, particularly with large-scale, distributed data systems.
Strong technical expertise in designing and operating scalable data storage solutions is essential, ideally with MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and Redis.
Experience with cloud-native architectures and technologies, especially Google Cloud or equivalent, is necessary.
A deep understanding of data consistency, replication, partitioning, and high availability strategies is required.
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes is important.
Proficiency in general-purpose programming languages such as Ruby, Go, Python, or Java is needed, with a preference for Ruby on Rails and ORMs.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced environment are essential.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, focusing on cross-functional teamwork, are required.
Knowledge of software engineering best practices for the software development life cycle is necessary.

Persona offers a competitive salary range of $180,000 - $240,000, with base salaries determined by experience and qualifications.
In addition to base salary, competitive equity packages are provided to recognize employee contributions.
Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 3% 401(k) contribution, and unlimited paid time off.
Employees receive quarterly mental health days, family planning benefits, professional development stipends, and wellness benefits.
The company promotes a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, fostering an environment where all employees feel empowered to bring their unique differences to work.