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Staff Software Engineer, Authentication and Security

200000.00 - 230000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 21, 2026
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We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and operate the authentication and identity systems that power our platform. This is a hands-on engineering role with a focus on reliability, scalability, and secure user experience. Our authentication stack is built on modern technologies including Keycloak, OIDC/SAML/LDAP integrations, and cloud-native infrastructure. We value strong problem-solving skills, sound engineering judgment, and a deep understanding of distributed systems and security principles. You’ll work on high-impact systems including (but not limited to) identity provider integrations, access control frameworks, token management, and policy enforcement infrastructure. Expect to tackle challenges in federated identity, Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), multi-tenant authorization, session management, and fault-tolerant authentication flows. You’ll play a key role in shaping our authentication architecture and defining the long-term strategy for identity and access management across the platform.

Job Responsibility

  • Design, build, and maintain authentication and identity services that power mission-critical platform access and authorization
  • Integrate and extend Keycloak to support complex identity provider (IdP) integrations, single sign-on (SSO), and federated authentication
  • Implement and evolve Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) frameworks to enable fine-grained, policy-driven authorization across systems
  • Work across the stack — from APIs and access tokens to infrastructure automation, deployment, and observability of authentication workflows
  • Diagnose and resolve reliability, latency, and scalability issues in production authentication and authorization flows
  • Collaborate on architecture and long-term strategy for secure, resilient, and high-availability identity systems
  • Implement and refine monitoring, auditing, and alerting for authentication and access events to ensure security visibility and compliance
  • Balance security, user experience, and delivery velocity, ensuring pragmatic decisions that maintain both product agility and engineering quality

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
  • Recent experience driving technical impact across teams and time horizons
  • A record of leading multi-quarter initiatives and evolving system architecture
  • Strong architectural judgment with a tight link to product and business outcomes
  • Thoughtful, high-context communication thats driven by a desire for clarity, not control
  • A pattern of multiplying others: through systems, standards, and mentorship
  • The ability to move fast with judgment while knowing when to ship, and when to reshape

What we offer

  • Remote work, flex time, and unlimited PTO
  • Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • 401k
  • Parental leave
  • Company summit trips, at least once a year
  • $1,000/year budget for home office improvements
  • Offers Equity

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