Staff Software Engineer - Identity and Privacy

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain privacy-first distributed data systems and consent management systems that comply with consumer privacy regulations.
• Design and operate high-throughput event-driven architectures (e.g. Kafka streaming systems) for collection processing and distribution of first-party data.
• Contribute to authentication and identity systems including user lifecycle management access controls and multi-factor authentication.
• Architect and scale asynchronous data pipelines and event processing systems for real-time and batch use cases.
• Partner with marketing and growth teams to enable privacy-compliant advertising CRM and analytics workflows.
• Implement privacy-preserving techniques (e.g. anonymization tokenization minimization) and ensure compliant data flows to third-party platforms.
• Collaborate with security and legal teams to enforce data governance retention and compliance policies.

What You’ll Bring to the Team

• 8+ years of software engineering experience (2+ years at Staff or above level) with a focus on distributed systems data infrastructure privacy or security.
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience building scalable production-grade systems.
• Deep experience with distributed systems including streaming platforms (e.g. Kafka) event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing.
• Experience designing and operating data pipelines eventing systems and first-party data platforms.
• Familiarity with authentication and identity systems (e.g. OAuth session management MFA user lifecycle management).
• Experience using agentic coding tools to improve development velocity reduce workflow friction automate repetitive tasks and increase system visibility—while maintaining strong engineering judgment and ownership of outcomes.
• Experience in regulated environments and strong ownership in driving complex cross-functional technical initiatives.

We’ve Got You Covered

• Full medical dental and vision insurance + OneMedical membership
• Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible PTO
• Wellbeing + Learning & Growth reimbursements
• Paid parental leave + Fertility benefits
• Pet insurance
• Student loan refinancing
• Virtual resources for mindfulness counseling and fitness

What We Do

Ro is a direct-to-patient healthcare company with a mission of helping patients achieve their health goals by delivering the easiest most effective care possible. Ro is the only company to offer nationwide telehealth labs and pharmacy services. This is enabled by Ro's vertically integrated platform that helps patients achieve their goals through a convenient end-to-end healthcare experience spanning from diagnosis to delivery of medication to ongoing care. Since 2017 Ro has helped millions of patients in nearly every single county in the United States including 98% of primary care deserts.

Why Work With Us

Ro is powering quality care at scale. The Ro Operating System (ro.OS) vertically integrates the core parts of healthcare bringing together nationwide telehealth lab and pharmacy services on one platform. The result? ro.OS makes it easier for patients to access and providers to deliver high-quality care – millions of times over.

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