# Software Engineer, User Auth Experience

**Company:** [Render](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/render)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** OAuth, openid connect, SAML, SCIM, jwt, RBAC, abac, rebac, SSO, audit logging
**Posted:** 2026-07-27

> Build and evolve Render's authentication, authorization, and access-management systems including SSO, RBAC, SCIM, and audit logging. Own security features end-to-end across APIs, data models, and UX while balancing security, product experience, and developer needs.

## Job Description

## 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.

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