--- title: 'Senior Software Engineer, Online Data Stores at Persona' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-online-data-stores-persona-san-francisco-exszjwmdc63k' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Senior Software Engineer, Online Data Stores at Persona - **Company:** Persona - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-07-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/persona/4dcc5ffd-2f9c-4f15-8865-a0629fff6b70 ## Job description ## About Persona Persona https://withpersona.com/ 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, Reddit relies on Persona for age assurance and verification to comply with online safety regulations, protecting younger users while maintaining a seamless experience. 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 Persona Persona https://withpersona.com/ 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, Coursera uses Persona to ensure the right person is earning each degree. 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 believe that making the internet safer and more human requires a team that reflects the diverse, global nature of the people we aim to serve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq4qqR3I9JA. We’re growing rapidly and looking for exceptional people to join us. ## About the Role We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Online Data Stores team, a critical part of the Infrastructure team at Persona. You'll play a key role in building, maintaining, and evolving the data storage solutions that power our application stack. You will be instrumental in ensuring the scalability, reliability, and performance of these core systems. You'll collaborate closely with other engineering teams to optimize data storage solutions and define best practices, helping Persona scale effectively. This is an opportunity to have a significant impact on the foundation of our platform and contribute to a growing company that's building the identity layer for the internet. You'll be working on challenging problems at scale, using cutting-edge technologies, and collaborating with a talented team of engineers. While Persona is based in San Francisco, the Infrastructure team is fully remote, with team members across the US and Canada. ## What you'll do at Persona - Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and secure data stores used across our application stack. - Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and application teams to optimize data storage solutions for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency. - Implement and advocate for best practices for data modeling, access patterns, monitoring, and incident response. - Contribute to automation, observability, and proactive capacity planning to ensure operational excellence. - Participate in code reviews, contribute to architectural discussions, and mentor junior engineers. - Partner with other engineering teams to deliver on complex initiatives together. - Develop simple, elegant solutions to complex problems. - 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. - 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 - 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on large-scale, distributed data systems. - Strong technical expertise in designing and operating scalable data storage solutions, ideally with the technologies we use (MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis). - Experience with cloud-native architectures and technologies, particularly Google Cloud (or equivalent cloud providers). - Deep understanding of data consistency, replication, partitioning, and high availability strategies. - Experience with infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes. - Software development experience in general-purpose programming languages (Ruby, Go, Python, Java) with a preference for experience in Ruby on Rails and ORMs. - Strong problem-solving skills and ability to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced environment. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a focus on cross-functional teamwork. - 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 ## Benefits and perks Persona offers a wide range of thoughtful and inclusive benefits for this role, including medical, dental, and vision, 3% 401(k) contribution, unlimited PTO, quarterly mental health days, family planning benefits, professional development stipends, wellness benefits, unlimited paid time off, 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 https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Persona-Identities-EI_IE4135645.11,29.htm. Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging At Persona, we strive to put diversity and inclusion at the forefront of everything we do, reflecting our core values. Our DEIB Employee Resource Group seeks to build a diverse and inclusive team that fosters an environment where each Personerd feels empowered to bring their unique differences to work and achieve their full innovative potential. Our hope is that by fostering such an environment, we strengthen our business and relationships by putting people first. We strive to promote a culture that celebrates diversity and inclusiveness regardless of, but not limited to, race, gender, sexual orientation, family status, religion, ethnicity, national origin, physical disability, veteran status, or age. ## Benefits and Perks For full-time US-based 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. For full-time UK employees, Persona offers a wide range of benefits, including private medical insurance, dental insurance, a 6% employer pension contribution, unlimited PTO, a monthly wellness stipend, professional development stipend, co-working stipend, and more. As part of our interview process, all candidates will be asked to verify their identity with Persona. This step is used solely to confirm that candidates are who they say they are, and will have no impact on hiring decisions. ## About Persona ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Persona provides a flexible and secure identity verification platform that helps businesses verify real people and real businesses online. - **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage and total funding not publicly available in provided sources) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: Not publicly available from provided sources - **Founders**: Not publicly available from provided sources ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Identity verification, fraud prevention, compliance (KYC/KYB), workforce verification - **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises, fintechs, online platforms, and any business that needs to verify users or businesses - **Mission or purpose**: “Keeping the internet human” and “humanizing online identity” – building a safer and more accessible internet by being the identity layer that powers it. ## Products & Services - **Verifications**: Verify identities using modern signals and authoritative records. - **Dynamic Flow**: Build custom information-collection flows that maximize conversion and minimize fraud. - **Workflows**: Automate identity processes around use cases like KYC, KYB, and workforce verification. - **Cases**: Equip your team or Persona’s platform agents to review cases and investigate activity. - **Graph**: Detect coordinated fraud in real time with link analysis and signals. - **Privacy Portal**: A secure, user-friendly portal for consumers to manage their privacy and personal data requests. All offerings are modular, API-first, and delivered as a SaaS platform. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Not publicly available (revenue and total funding not found in provided sources) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not mentioned in provided search results - **Growth Signals**: - Described as “one of the fastest growing companies in technology” on their early careers page. - Hiring heavily for mid-level talent (59% of roles) with 32 open positions; 38% of roles are in engineering. - 100% of job postings require OpenAI skills, indicating deep AI integration across all functions. - Hiring has been flat for two months, suggesting steady rather than explosive momentum. - Company concentrated in San Francisco (26 of 32 roles), with 4 remote positions. ## Competitive Advantages - **Security and privacy at the core**: Compliant and certified to the highest industry standards; provides a consumer privacy portal. - **Modular, flexible platform**: Building blocks for any identity use case, from simple verification to complex fraud orchestration. - **Graph technology**: Real-time link analysis to detect coordinated fraud – a differentiator over basic verification tools. - **Speed without compromise**: Culture of efficiency while maintaining high quality. ## Strategic Focus - **AI integration across every function**: OpenAI skills required for all roles, signaling that AI is core to product, sales, engineering, and operations. - **Scaling execution**: Inverted seniority mix (59% mid-level, 16% senior) suggests the company is prioritizing doers and individual contributors over management layers. - **Expanding identity lifecycle**: From initial verification to ongoing fraud prevention and workforce identity. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: “People first,” “speed is not a tradeoff,” “work in public,” “start small, think big,” “lead by serving.” Emphasis on collaboration, continuous improvement, and high standards. - **Benefits & Perks**: - 401(k) with 3% automatic annual contribution (even if employee doesn’t contribute). - Unlimited PTO and quarterly company-wide wellness days. - 16 weeks parental leave (including all paths to parenthood). - Annual professional development reimbursement (courses, books, conferences). - Monthly wellness stipend (gym, books, etc.) and coworking stipend for remote employees. - Commuter benefits, catered lunch on in-office days, weekly company meetings, team offsites, and social events. - **Engineering Culture**: Mentorship from former Square, Dropbox, and Coursera engineers; ship features end-to-end from week one; strong early career programs (internships, technical leadership program). - **Work Model**: Hybrid/office-first in San Francisco, with some fully remote roles available. In-office presence includes catered meals and curated social events. ## Sources 1. [withpersona.com/careers](https://withpersona.com/careers/) 2. [withpersona.com](https://withpersona.com/) 3. [withpersona.com/about](https://withpersona.com/about) 4. [withpersona.com/early-careers](https://withpersona.com/early-careers/) 5. 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