Senior Software Engineer (Platform - Access & Authorization)

Employer shown to signed-in membersNorth AmericaSenior5+ years experienceBackend

Specialty

Backend

Who is hiring is shown to signed-in users. Create a free account to see the employer and apply.

The role

The company is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Access & Authorization team in its Platform group, building the authentication, OAuth, session and token services used across the company products. The company is remote-first, with quarterly in-person sessions.

What you will do

  • Own design, build and operation of authentication, OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, account recovery and edge authorization
  • Build low-latency Go and gRPC services with observability, failure testing and SLOs
  • Lead designs for signed authorization tokens, passkeys, biometric recovery, device-aware authentication and mobile OAuth
  • Work with product, security, fraud and infrastructure teams on conversion, protection and regulation trade-offs
  • Build self-service tooling so product teams can adopt access capabilities safely
  • Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews and on-call

What they ask for

  • 5+ years of backend engineering, strong in Go or a similar systems language, running high-throughput distributed services
  • Experience designing secure APIs and reasoning about authentication, authorization and tokens (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, PKCE)
  • Proficiency with gRPC, Protocol Buffers and Redis or DynamoDB
  • Operational experience with metrics, logs, traces, alerts and SLOs
  • Delivered cross-functional projects from design to rollout
  • Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight

What they offer

  • Equity and bonus eligibility on top of base salary
  • Medical, dental, vision and 401(k) benefits
  • Remote-first with quarterly in-person sessions

This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on the employer's careers page behind the apply button.

Similar remote jobs