About the Role
This position involves leading technical design and development efforts for authentication and administrative functionality, ensuring robust, maintainable solutions that align with long-term product goals.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and implementation of secure authentication systems
- Design and maintain backend services for administrative functionality
- Collaborate with product and security teams to define access controls
- Improve system reliability and scalability for identity management
- Drive best practices in code quality and software design
- Mentor engineers across teams on authentication patterns
- Troubleshoot complex issues in production environments
- Evaluate and integrate new security technologies
- Ensure compliance with data protection standards
- Participate in technical planning and roadmap development
- Optimize performance of identity-related services
- Support incident response for authentication outages
- Contribute to API design for internal and external use
- Maintain documentation for critical system components
- Work with SREs to improve observability and monitoring
- Implement automated testing for core security features
- Refactor legacy systems to improve maintainability
- Enforce secure coding standards across services
- Collaborate on cross-team initiatives involving access management
- Conduct code reviews with a focus on security and scalability
- Assist in defining service level objectives for key systems
- Evaluate third-party identity providers and integrations
- Support migration efforts for user identity data
- Contribute to disaster recovery planning for auth systems
- Promote consistency in authentication workflows
Nice to Have
- Experience with identity management platforms
- Knowledge of single sign-on implementations
- Background in security engineering
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks like GDPR
- Experience scaling systems to millions of users
- Contributions to open-source security projects
- Advanced degrees in computer science or related field
- Certifications in cloud or security domains
- Public speaking or conference participation
- Leadership in cross-functional technical initiatives
Compensation
Competitive salary based on experience and location
Work Arrangement
Hybrid work model with office and remote options
Team
Part of a global engineering organization focused on identity and access systems
About the Team
- This team owns core infrastructure for user authentication and administrative controls across the platform.
- Members work closely with security, product, and operations teams to ensure reliable and secure access management.
What We Value
- Technical excellence, clear communication, and proactive problem solving.
- Collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning in a fast-paced environment.
Available for qualified candidates requiring sponsorship
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