Senior Backend Engineer - Identity & Access Management

Accountabilities

• Design, build, and scale secure Identity and Access Management (IAM) services supporting authentication, authorization, and user management across multiple platforms and products.

• Lead architectural decisions for IAM systems, ensuring alignment with broader platform strategy while optimizing for security, performance, and scalability.

• Develop and maintain distributed backend services using modern cloud infrastructure, with strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and fault tolerance.

• Define and implement SLIs/SLOs, incident response practices, and performance monitoring to ensure high availability of critical identity services.

• Collaborate with engineering, product, and security teams to design secure system integrations, APIs, and cross-platform authentication flows.

• Improve system resilience through testing, documentation, debugging, and continuous enhancement of monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness.

• Participate in on-call rotations and mentor other engineers while contributing to a culture of technical excellence and ownership.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including strong backend/API development in distributed systems environments.

• Extensive experience with Go (Golang), RESTful API design, and microservices architecture at scale.

• Deep understanding of identity systems including OAuth 2.0, SSO, session management, and token-based authentication.

• Experience working with cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform) and distributed or relational databases (e.g., CockroachDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL).

• Strong security mindset with experience designing systems that incorporate threat modeling, secure defaults, and defense-in-depth principles.

• Proven ability to design scalable, maintainable, and well-tested systems while making thoughtful architectural tradeoffs.

• Excellent collaboration, communication, and ownership mindset, with experience working in cross-functional and distributed teams.

• Preferred experience with identity platforms (Auth0, Cognito, Ory stack), authorization models, or mobile authentication patterns.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of approximately $146,000–$182,000 annually, with bonus eligibility and equity opportunities.

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage with no-monthly-cost medical plan options.

• Retirement savings plan with 401(k) matching contributions.

• Flexible work arrangements within a distributed, remote-friendly environment across the United States.

• Paid parental leave, generous PTO, floating holidays, and additional flexible time-off policies.

• Annual stipends and perks supporting outdoor activities, wellness, and professional development.

• Equity grants and long-term growth opportunities within a scaling engineering organization.

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