Persona
Identity Platform
SoftwareEngineer,Compute
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“Software Engineer, Compute at Persona. Skills: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, IaC. Build internal platform tooling. Build internal platform APIs”
What You'll Achieve.
Product engineers can do more without filing a ticket
Industry & Context.
Debug distributed system failures; Debug scheduling failures; Work out why a pod won't start; Identify friction in CLIs, APIs, and deployment workflows
Willing to be paged for the platform
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
SWE fundamentals, shipped production services, writes readable and operable code, can debug distributed system failures across layers you don't fully own, Product instinct, measure adoption, treat low usage as a design failure, change things based on user feedback, Developer experience sensibility, identify friction in CLIs, APIs, and deployment workflows, design for clear affordances, actionable error states, and progressive disclosure, Kubernetes in practice, operated services on K8s, can debug scheduling failures, write RBAC policies, work out why a pod won't start, willing to be paged for the platform, Infrastructure as code in a team context, modified production IaC alongside other engineers, understand why declarative infrastructure and change safety matter
Nice to Have
Deep K8s internals, cluster lifecycle, admission controllers, custom controllers/operators, ArgoCD or another GitOps tool in production, GKE or managed Kubernetes at scale, Ruby or Rails, Experience in a regulated or high-trust environment
What You'll Do.
Build internal platform tooling
Build internal platform APIs
Own and evolve Kubernetes platform
Own and evolve ArgoCD deployment pipeline
Own and evolve Terraform IaC
Improve platform observability
Drive Cloud Run-to-Kubernetes migration
Design self-service workflows
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work directly with product teams; Modify production IaC alongside other engineers
Full 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 Compute team's mission: any engineer, using AI, should be able to stand up and operate a stateful service at production scale with no meaningful infrastructure knowledge required. We build the tiering zones, guardrails, and AI skills that make this possible. Reliable, observable, and self-service by design. This is a software engineering role. You'll spend real time writing code: platform APIs, internal tooling, deployment pipelines, automation that replaces the support tickets. Infrastructure fluency matters; infrastructure specialization is not the lead. What matters most is product instinct: understanding your users (product engineers), measuring whether they're getting unblocked, and treating developer experience as feature acceptance criteria. The platform is yours to own, not just build. When ArgoCD fails and every team's deploy is blocked, that's your page. When a product engineer can't figure out why their service is OOMKilling and there's no useful error surface, that's your design failure to fix. A Software Engineer will grow their infrastructure de
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