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 Role
As an engineer on the Data Infrastructure team at Persona, you will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining the data platform that powers our data science and analytics applications. This is a highly cross-functional role—you will work on everything from deploying new cloud infrastructure to writing data pipelines to developing new product features that better deliver analytics for our customers, all while closely collaborating with product, data science, and post-sales teams. We are a small team where every member has a high degree of ownership of our stack, working to make Persona a more data-driven organization.
What you'll do at Persona
Build and expand the data platform using cutting edge technologies for the cloud data stack.
Design and implement efficient data models to power analytics and core product workflows.
Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business and product needs into product features.
Identify new opportunities to use data in transformative ways across product, data science, and business teams.
What you’ll bring to Persona
3+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on data infrastructure or large-scale data systems.
Proficiency in Python and familiarity with technologies like Kafka, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Airflow and Apache Flink.
Experience designing and implementing scalable ETL pipelines and working with structured and unstructured data.
Strong understanding of data modeling, including schema design and performance optimization for analytical and operational use cases.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working cross-functionally with product, data science, and operational teams.
A passion for leveraging data to drive innovation.
Nice to have
Familiarity with React, Ruby on Rails, Kubernetes, Google Cloud (GCP), MySQL, MongoDB
Full-time Employee Benefits and Perks
For full-time employees (excluding international, 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.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering, focusing on data infrastructure or large-scale data systems
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with Kafka, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Airflow, and Apache Flink
- Experience designing and implementing scalable ETL pipelines
- Strong understanding of data modeling, including schema design and performance optimization
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Passion for leveraging data to drive innovation
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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