Engineering Architect (Node.js)

What you’ll be doing

• Collaborate with Product, Security, and Engineering teams to define and improve Auth0’s technology stack and architecture.
• Develop expertise in authentication and authorization to enhance and scale product offerings.
• Embed within Engineering teams for large projects and provide guidance for smaller initiatives.
• Design, architect, and document large-scale distributed systems.
• Lead development of complex, broadly-scoped functionality across services.
• Code, optimize, and troubleshoot Node.js and Go applications.
• Implement features using AWS, Azure, Node.js, Go, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes.
• Investigate and resolve scalability bottlenecks to maintain 99.99% uptime.
• Drive technical decisions balancing simplicity, flexibility, reliability, cost, and performance.
• Mentor engineers and participate in Engineering Leadership Team.
• Join Incident Commander on-call rotation after training.

What you’ll bring to the role

• Passion for building secure, reliable systems at scale.
• Strong communication skills adaptable to executives, engineers, and product managers.
• Experience with Node.js (JavaScript or TypeScript), the deeper the better.
• Experience with API-driven applications using REST and/or gRPC.
• Experience with multi-cloud environments and Kubernetes in AWS/Azure.
• Strong analytical skills for performance optimization.
• Ability to create clarity, lead technical discussions, and build consensus.
• Knowledge of application and cloud security best practices.
• 10+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years of experience working on cloud applications.

Extra credit

• Knowledge of Identity Protocols such as OAuth, OIDC, and SAML.
• Experience with security engineering and application security.