# Backend Engineer, Identity

**Company:** [Tailscale](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/tailscale)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $163k – $204k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Oauth2, OIDC, SAML, SSO, SCIM, SQL, Distributed Systems, Observability, Security
**Posted:** 2026-06-18

> Backend engineer focused on identity and access management, building authentication features (SSO, OAuth2, SAML, WebAuthn) and SCIM sync capabilities in Go for a distributed systems platform.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Work as part of a team of engineers to design, build, test, and document core software components
- Develop product features in areas that include our control plane, platform, and identity services
- Develop features that support a broad range of sign-on functionality, such as SSO, OAuth2, SAML, and WebAuthn
- Develop and maintain SCIM style capabilities to synchronize users, groups and other attributes from IdPs
- Exhibit ownership over the running services that comprise Tailscale’s product by building for observability, participating in incident response, and fielding customer support escalations
- Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
- Bring a security-first mindset to both design and implementation
- Participate in on-call rotation every x weeks to triage and mitigate incidents

## Requirements
- Familiarity with authentication/authorization protocols, standards and frameworks such as OAuth2, OIDC, SSO, and SAML
- Experience with distributed systems and building observable, secure, scalable, and resilient services
- Experience with one or more SQL databases
- Ability to give and process constructive feedback, as well as work independently
- Flexibility to adjust to the dynamic nature of a startup
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

## Nice-to-Haves
- Familiarity with SCIM
- Experience with Go
- Familiarity with networks (IP addressing, routing, etc.)

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