--- title: 'Software Engineer, Network at Persona' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-network-persona-remote-teent5s625hg' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Software Engineer, Network at Persona - **Company:** Persona - **Location:** Remote - **Compensation:** $130k–$220k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-05-29 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/persona/fc9e26c9-0123-4cd1-a8da-c1836ab68a0b/application **Skills:** Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes networking, Ingress controllers, DNS, Network policies, Infrastructure as code, Proxies, Load balancers, Cloudflare, Istio, Service mesh, GKE, Managed Kubernetes, Ruby, Rails > Join the Edge team to own edge networking configuration, evolve the ingress layer, and build network-layer observability. This role involves managing DNS, supporting regional expansion, and defining technical standards for a new, independent networking team. ## 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 THE ROLE & THE TEAM Every request Persona handles crosses our network before it touches any product code. Cloudflare, ingress, DNS, and the service mesh are not background infrastructure. They are the front door and backbone. When they work, nobody notices. When they break, everything breaks. The Edge team exists because networking kept losing the prioritization battle inside a broader infrastructure team. As we've grown, that became the wrong tradeoff, and we fixed it by giving networking its own home, its own roadmap, and its own definition of done. This team owns the full traffic path — from the first packet leaving clients through our through our (Cloudflare-backed) ingress and then onward across the service mesh — as a product, not a service desk. You'll be one of the first engineers on a team with a clear, narrow mission and real ownership. You'll help define what good looks like for a traffic layer that Persona's engineers can configure, observe, and extend without filing a ticket. The changes you make to improve performance will result in meaningful client outcomes. ## WHAT YOU'LL DO AT PERSONA - Own edge networking configuration: routing, WAF policy, rate limiting, certificate management, driving toward a model where engineers ship traffic changes without waiting on infra. We use Cloudflare extensively but not exclusively. - Evolve the ingress layer (controllers, lifecycle, policy, Ingress API) so inbound traffic is reliable, observable, and self-service - Manage DNS across internal clusters and external zones so name resolution is invisible by design - Build network-layer observability: latency, error rates, routing visibility that surfaces problems before they become incidents - Support Persona's regional expansion by extending networking into new geographies and ensuring regional expansion is scalable, performant, and maintainable - Help define the team's practices and technical standards. This team is new, and you'll shape what it looks like — from SDLC, usage of AI tooling, static analysis, chaos engineering, and usage of simulation. We are serious about encoding top-quality engineering practices into the team’s DNA — and you will be core to their development. ## WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO PERSONA - Experience building and shipping production services in a polyglot environment (Go, TypeScript, or similar). You should enjoy the pros/cons of different languages — a zealot is unlikely to enjoy working in our garden - Experience diagnosing production issues at the network layer, including understanding how proxies and load balancers can obscure the real source of a problem. You should enjoy deep, methodical investigatory work — but also have the chops to quickly take on triage and solutioning should an emergency arise - Kubernetes networking in practice: ingress controllers, DNS, network policies, not just running workloads - Manages infrastructure as code in practice, not just in principle. Change safety and governance should be a feature not a bug — and you enjoy designing those processes so they appear low-friction while having real teeth - Experience building internal platforms or tools with a track record of driving adoption across engineering teams. We love OSS and hope to continue contributing, but we also need to unblock ourselves today when external tools fall short. ## NICE TO HAVES - Cloudflare (Workers, WAF, Access, or Tunnel) - Istio or another service mesh in a multi-cluster environment - GKE or managed Kubernetes at scale - Ruby or Rails (we integrate with Ruby systems) - A “hacker’s heart” for prototyping new ideas and ways of operating — even though experimentation might not progress beyond the toy phase ## 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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