# Senior Backend Engineer, Identity & Access Management

**Company:** [Launchdarkly](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/launchdarkly)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Go, TypeScript, Cockroachdb, Redis, AWS, Terraform, SAML, Oauth2, SCIM, MFA, Webauthn, RBAC, SOC 2, FedRAMP, OIDC
**Posted:** 2026-08-12

> Owns and evolves production authentication and identity infrastructure, including SSO, SCIM, MFA, sessions, and API credentials. The role requires 6+ years of backend engineering experience, production ownership, cloud expertise, and strong judgment around correctness, availability, and secure change.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own LaunchDarkly’s authentication surface end to end, including single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, login and session flows, multi-factor authentication, and API key and token authentication.
- Build enterprise identity capabilities, including additional identity-provider integrations, multiple identity providers per account, and default MFA enforcement.
- Make the stack operable with SLOs, monitoring for certificate expiry and provisioning failures, actionable alerting, runbooks, and sustainable on-call practices.
- Partner with Product Security on threat modeling, audit logging, and compliance requirements including SOC 2 and FedRAMP.
- Set technical direction for identity and mentor engineers through design reviews.

## Requirements
- **6+ years** of professional software engineering experience, with significant work on complex backend applications.
- Experience building or operating production authentication and identity systems.
- A track record working on systems where correctness and availability are non-negotiable, including backward-compatible changes, staged rollouts, and safe cutovers.
- Proficiency in at least one backend language, such as Go, Rust, or Python.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or equivalent.
- Strong production ownership, including on-call responsibilities.

## Nice to Have
- Protocol depth in SAML, OIDC/OAuth2, or SCIM.
- Integration experience with Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, OneLogin, or Ping.
- Experience with MFA/WebAuthn, RBAC and authorization policy engines, or audit logging at multi-tenant scale.
- Experience engineering under compliance regimes such as SOC 2 or FedRAMP.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle — **$191,800–$263,670**.
- Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago — **$172,600–$237,270**.
- Zone 3: All other US locations — **$163,000–$224,070**.
- Compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits are provided in addition to salary.

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