Staff Software Engineer for Identity Management (Go/Golang)
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Staff-level or experienced senior software engineer for identity and access management products. Must have Go/Golang, Python, IAM domain experience, OpenID/OAuth/LDAP familiarity, distributed authorization experience, Ubuntu comfort, and professional English. Remote only in EMEA and AMER regions with international travel twice a year.
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What you'll do
- Collaborate proactively with a distributed team, leading technical efforts and discussions
- Write clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Go (Golang) and Python
- Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scale
- Review code produced by other engineers, helping set quality standards
- Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
- Create and enhance management, authentication and authorization API endpoints
- Craft end-user authentication flows from design to implementation
- Write Juju charms (operators) to manage operational concerns
- Modernize the identity stack of our websites and products by driving adoption of best-of-breed IAM technologies
- Deliver great products that users love by maintaining a culture of quality and engineering excellence
- Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external events
What they require
- You are a staff-level or experienced senior software engineer, with specific experience building identity and access management products
- You are familiar with the open source software, standards, protocols and concepts in the identity space (e.g. OpenID, OAuth, LDAP)
- You have experience implementing authorization frameworks in distributed systems
- You value secure coding and standards, and enjoy working on teams that do the same
- You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
- Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team conferences in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
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