Software Engineer, User Auth Experience

What You'll Do

• Design and ship authentication and authorization systems for users, agents, and services including credential scoping, SSO, SCIM provisioning and fine-grained permission models.
• Evolve Render's authorization model toward clear permissions and scopes for applications, environments, projects, and other platform resources.
• Own the security experience across the stack, from the interfaces used to manage features through to the APIs, data models and systems behind them.
• Build the controls and audit trails customers use to define, enforce and understand how people, services and agents act within their systems.
• Design shared auth APIs and primitives, then work closely with Product, Design, Security, and other Render teams to drive adoption.
• Operate authentication and authorization systems that customers and other teams depend on, including observability, safe rollouts, incident response, and on-call.

What We're Looking For

• 6+ years of experience shipping and operating production systems.
• Built customer-facing authentication or authorization features and understand how security choices shape the product experience.
• Designed and operated systems where correctness, availability, and safe rollout matter. Comfortable working through API, data-model, caching, and migration tradeoffs.
• Can balance security and product tradeoffs. Understand why a control exists, the friction it creates and when a simpler design is enough.
• Track record of taking ambiguous projects from design through production while working with product, design, and engineers in other parts of the company.
• We care more about the systems you've built and the decisions you made than whether your last role had a "security" title.

Nice-to-haves

• Hands-on experience with OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM, JWTs or other authentication methods.
• Experience with multi-tenant authorization models such as RBAC, ABAC, or ReBAC, including policy engines or fine-grained authorization systems.
• Experience with workload identity, short-lived credentials, secrets management, privileged access, or security controls for services and agents.
• Experience building developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, identity product or SaaS products where APIs and backwards compatibility matter.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 and an ability to turn those requirements into security improvements for all customers.
• Contributions to open-source auth/security tooling.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
• Continuous learning benefits & related support.