What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineering Residency 2025 position at Persona?
Founded in 2018, Persona is a 250-person tech startup based in San Francisco, backed by Index Ventures, Coatue, Founders Fund, and First Round Capital. Persona offers flexible building blocks that help businesses fight fraud, stay compliant, and build trust among their customers. For example, Coursera uses Persona to ensure the right person is earning each degree, OpenAI uses Persona to prevent the misuse of ChatGPT, and Lime checks the ages of customers before they ride electric scooters or bikes. To learn more, check out this short video.
About the role
Our engineers have a significant impact on our product and customers; they have full deploy access and push code into production from day one. You will work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you will design, test, and ship great code every day. The work you do will affect Persona, our customers, and their users. Throughout your time here you will be working with our engineering, design, and product team on important features, communicating with our customers, and helping us build Persona! We offer extensive opportunities for mentorship with formal and informal mentorship from some of the best engineers in the industry.
This position is based in San Francisco where the team is in-office Tuesday - Thursday with the option to work from home Monday and Friday. We offer relocation support for those based outside of San Francisco Bay Area.
About the Program
- Our Software Engineering Residency is a 3-month immersive experience designed for aspiring engineers who have limited software engineering work experience but want to explore a career in software engineering. You'll learn foundational principles from seasoned engineers and gain exposure to real-world engineering challenges. This will set you up for success as you help design, build, and ship critical components of our identity platform. From tackling small-scale tasks to solving complex data problems, you may even work directly with customers to develop solutions that combat fraud and make the internet safer.
What you'll bring to Persona
What you'll gain from the Program
125,000 - $135,000 a year
Offer and benefits
For this role, the estimated base salary range is between $125,000 - $135,000. Base salaries are just one component of the total compensation package and are determined by a number of factors such as years of experience, expertise, qualifications, and more. In addition to base salary, we offer competitive equity packages that play a big part in recognizing you for the huge impact you will have on helping us achieve our mission.
Please note, that the salary range is a guideline that is subject to change without notice. We are proud to offer best-in-class benefits at Persona. From 401K matching and parental leave to quarterly company-wide mental health days, unlimited PTO, family planning, and wellness stipends, we constantly seek ways to continue embodying our value of People First.
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.
Salary : $125,000 - $135,000
