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, 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 roleWe are looking for passionate engineers who are excited to turn data into products customers love. As a senior engineer on the Data Products team at Persona, you'll build the customer-facing surfaces of our data platform — the features and services that let customers and internal teams query, explore, export, and act on their data. This is a data-leaning full-stack role focused on building data-intensive products: from in-dashboard SQL and bulk data exports, to AI-powered analytics, to the application layer of our data platform. You'll own the technical direction of our customer-facing data products end to end — shaping what we build and how — and mentor the engineers building alongside you, collaborating closely with product, design, data science, and the rest of engineering.
What you'll do at PersonaBuild and grow customer-facing data products — from in-dashboard SQL that lets customers query their own data, to custom and bulk data exports, to entirely new data-rich features.
Build AI-powered and agentic analytics tools — product features that let customers and internal teams ask questions of their data in natural language.
Build the backend services, APIs, and query layer that power these products over large, fast-moving datasets — letting teams and customers access high-volume data in real time.
Partner with product and design to translate customer and business needs into reliable, performant, data-intensive features.
5+ years building data-intensive products or backend/full-stack services, with a track record of shipping customer-facing products end to end.
Proficiency in a backend language (we use Python, Ruby on Rails, and Go) and comfort working across the stack to ship product features end to end.
Experience building user-facing products or APIs backed by large datasets, with care for performance, correctness, and security/PII handling.
Working familiarity with SQL and analytical data stores (e.g. Snowflake, ClickHouse).
Experience leading product-engineering initiatives across teams and mentoring other engineers.
Comfort operating in ambiguity and partnering with product to shape strategy, not just execute it.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of working closely with product and design.
A passion for using data to build transformative customer experiences.
Nice to have: experience building AI/LLM-powered applications or agentic tooling; React; Google Cloud (GCP); semantic layers.
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.
Skills Required
- 5+ years building data-intensive products or backend/full-stack services, shipping customer-facing products end to end.
- Proficiency in a backend language (we use Python, Ruby on Rails, and Go).
- Experience building user-facing products or APIs backed by large datasets with focus on performance, correctness, and security/PII handling.
- Working familiarity with SQL and analytical data stores (e.g., Snowflake, ClickHouse).
- Experience leading product-engineering initiatives across teams and mentoring other engineers.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and partnering with product to shape strategy.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills and ability to work closely with product and design.
- Experience building AI/LLM-powered applications or agentic tooling.
- Experience with React.
- Experience with Google Cloud (GCP).
- Experience with semantic layers.
Persona Identities Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Persona Identities and has not been reviewed or approved by Persona Identities.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Engineering pay is portrayed as market-competitive, and role-specific salary pages display a visible range of titles and pay across functions. Recent compensation submissions indicate strong packages in core roles, supporting market alignment.
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Retirement Support — A non‑elective company 401(k) contribution is provided, adding reliable retirement value regardless of employee deferrals. This element is consistently highlighted across public benefits descriptions.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of substantial length and support for adoption and surrogacy are explicitly offered, with flexibility to take leave over an extended window. Family‑planning resources further bolster coverage for different paths to parenthood.
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What We Do
Persona helps businesses manage KYC/AML/KYB programs, fight fraud, and build trust by automating any identity-related use case with our flexible identity infrastructure. For example, we help Branch automate their KYC process and Coursera verify learners’ identities before delivering course credentials. Beyond securely collecting and verifying user information such as PII, government IDs, and biometric selfies, our platform also provides flexible case review and orchestration tools to help businesses streamline and automate their identity operations — from setting custom rules to ingesting third-party data and triggering external actions.
Why Work With Us
Persona's a leader in identity verification, offering unmatched flexibility to meet diverse business needs. With customizable building blocks, our product adapts to various industries, use cases, and risk levels. Our core value of having a People-first culture thrives on new perspectives that enrich the workplace and support our mission and value.
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