Software Engineer, Compute
Role Overview
This mid-level infrastructure engineer role involves building, operating, and monitoring foundational components to support scalable and resilient services at Persona. Day-to-day responsibilities include working with product teams to design infrastructure systems, managing containerized deployments like Kubernetes, and applying infrastructure-as-code practices in a cloud environment. The hire will impact product delivery by enabling rapid feature deployment with cost-effectiveness and high reliability.
Perks & Benefits
The role is fully remote within the United States, with quarterly in-person visits to the San Francisco HQ, and offers benefits such as medical, dental, vision, 3% 401(k) contribution, unlimited PTO, quarterly mental health days, and a professional development stipend. It emphasizes a collaborative, high-energy startup culture with a focus on engineering best practices and remote team dynamics, supporting career growth through hands-on system design and complex problem-solving.
Full Job Description
About Persona
Persona is the configurable identity platform built for businesses in a digital-first world. Verifying individuals and organizations is harder — but more important — than ever, with AI enabling fraudsters to launch sophisticated accounts at scale and regulations evolving rapidly.
We’ve built Persona to support practically every use case and industry — that’s why we’re able to serve a wide range of leading companies. For example, Instacart relies on Persona to verify shoppers who onboard onto their platform before delivering groceries to your doorstep. Meanwhile, OpenAI relies on Persona to keep bad actors out, protecting one of the world’s most powerful AI platforms from large-scale abuse in a time when AI is reshaping the way we work and live.
We’re growing rapidly and looking for exceptional people to join us!
About the Role
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. Our infrastructure team operates remotely in the United States (with teammates in each time zone!), but commits to visiting our San Francisco HQ once a quarter to work together in person.
What you'll do at Persona
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
What you'll bring to Persona
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
Full-time Employee Benefits and Perks
For full-time employees (excluding internship and contractor opportunities), Persona offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision, 3% 401(k) contribution, unlimited PTO, quarterly mental health days, family planning benefits, professional development stipend, wellness benefits, among others. While we believe competitive compensation and benefits are a critical aspect of you deciding to join us, we do hope you consider why our core values and culture are right for you. If you’d like to better understand what it’s like working at Persona, feel free to check out our reviews on Glassdoor.
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