# Staff Software Engineer, Frameworks

**Company:** [Commure](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/commure)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA, Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $210k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** oauth 2.0, OIDC, jwt, RBAC, abac, Kubernetes, aws cognito, Python, FastAPI, Postgres, Go, CI/CD, Distributed Systems, Observability
**Posted:** 2026-07-20

> Staff Software Engineer owning authentication, authorization, and shared frameworks/platform services at Commure. Design secure identity systems (OAuth/OIDC), improve performance/observability/developer productivity, lead cross-team initiatives, and mentor while building scalable backend/distributed systems for healthcare AI platform.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- Own and evolve the architecture of authentication and authorization systems used across multiple products and services.
- Design and build secure identity workflows, including OAuth 2.0/OIDC flows, token issuance and validation, session management, service-to-service authentication, and fine-grained authorization.
- Lead the design and evolution of shared platform services and reusable engineering patterns, enabling teams to build and operate microservices consistently and safely.
- Drive improvements to application performance and scalability, identifying systemic bottlenecks across APIs, databases, caching layers, middleware, and distributed service interactions.
- Improve developer productivity and experience through faster CI/CD workflows, reusable service tooling, test infrastructure, local development environments, and self-service platform capabilities.
- Establish strong standards for observability and operational readiness, including monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, SLOs, and safe production rollouts.
- Partner closely with platform and product teams to protect sensitive customer data, strengthen security boundaries, and meet regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Lead complex technical initiatives that span multiple systems and teams, from architecture and design through implementation, migration, rollout, and production operations.
- Make pragmatic technical decisions that balance security, correctness, reliability, performance, simplicity, and delivery velocity.
- Mentor Senior and other Staff engineers, lead architecture and design reviews, and raise the technical bar through clear technical direction, high-quality engineering practices, and thoughtful feedback.
- Operate with strong end-to-end ownership in a fast-moving environment, proactively identifying systemic risks and driving durable solutions rather than local fixes.

## What You Have
**Required**
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of designing, building, and operating complex production systems at scale.
- Strong experience with authentication and authorization systems, including practical knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWTs, session and token management, service-to-service authentication, RBAC, ABAC, and policy-based authorization.
- Deep expertise in backend and distributed systems, including service architecture, APIs, databases, caching, asynchronous processing, and cloud-native systems.
- Strong technical judgment and security fundamentals, with the ability to reason about trust boundaries, identity propagation, least privilege, failure modes, and secure-by-default system design, while balancing security, reliability, performance, simplicity, and delivery velocity.
- Experience leading large, multi-component technical initiatives across team boundaries, from architecture and design through implementation, migration, rollout, and production operations.
- A strong operational and platform mindset, with experience in areas such as Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, observability, CI/CD, safe migrations, incremental rollouts, and production reliability.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and multiply the effectiveness of other engineers through technical leadership, architecture reviews, clear communication, mentorship, and reusable frameworks and tooling.
- A high degree of ownership and curiosity: you are comfortable moving between architecture and implementation, diving deeply into unfamiliar systems when necessary, and staying accountable for end-to-end outcomes.

**Preferred**
- Experience building centralized identity, authentication, or authorization platforms used across multiple products or engineering teams.
- Experience with technologies in our ecosystem, including AWS Cognito, Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, PostgreSQL, Go, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Experience mentoring engineers and leveling up an engineering organization.
- Knowledge of healthcare security and compliance standards (HIPAA, SOC 2).

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