Staff Software Engineer, Non-Human Identity

What you’ll be doing

Contribute to Core Architecture:

• Partner with principal engineers and architects to design and implement a low-latency, high-throughput secrets engine for non-human identities

Solve for Massive Scale:

• Write highly concurrent, performance-critical code capable of handling millions of machine-to-machine authentication and authorization requests

Shape Technical Strategy:

• Play a key role in defining the long-term technical roadmap for scalability and performance, ensuring our platform can meet the demands of the largest enterprises

Mentor and Elevate:

• Work with junior engineers to help them advance their SDLC expertise

On-Call:

• Participate in the rotational on-call activities with SRE and product development team

What you’ll bring to the role

Required Experience:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a heavy focus on backend or systems-level development
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience

Core Technical Expertise:

• Deep, hands-on expertise in multi-platform Go development and building high-performance, concurrent applications
• Experience designing or operating distributed systems
• Experience with secure systems (authn/authz, encryption, TLS, token handling, PKI, CAs, diagnosing TLS issues)
• Deep expertise in distributed storage systems, with a focus on replication, backup, and restore, and data management (Postgres, etc.)
• Direct experience designing, building, or contributing to a secrets management, service mesh, or machine identity platform
• Expert-level at ergonomic API design (gRPC/openAPI), and building for reliability at scale
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure

Key Attributes:

• Driven by the challenge of optimizing systems for performance, latency, and throughput, with a proven ability to diagnose complex, multi-system issues
• Proven track record of making significant contributions to the architecture of complex, mission-critical systems
• Thrive in an environment where you can focus on deep technical problems

Bonus Points:

• Experience at a leading Cybersecurity or Infrastructure-as-Code company
• Contributions to open-source projects in the identity, security, or infrastructure space

Additional Experience:

• Deep expertise in backend systems engineering
• Experience building and scaling beyond standard three-tier monolithic architectures, with a focus on modern distributed systems
• Worked on projects with complex, established systems
• Significant, hands-on experience in a Linux/Unix environment