Staff Software Engineer — Identity & Access Management
- Role
- Backend
- Experience
- Staff
- Employment
- Full-time
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No BS summary
Staff Engineer for Identity & Access Management (IAM) platform team. Individual contributor role with high technical scope, focusing on secure, high-scale auth infrastructure. Owns strategy for authentication, authorization, and session management, evolving OAuth 2.0 / OIDC flows. Requires deep technical knowledge, calm under pressure, and ability to build buy-in with stakeholders.
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Required skills
We're looking for a Staff Engineer to join our Identity & Access Management (IAM) platform team. This is an individual contributor role with outsized technical scope: you'll be the technical anchor for how Xsolla builds secure, high-scale auth infrastructure — setting direction, making hard architectural calls, and raising the bar across the org. You will own the strategy behind authentication, authorization, and session management at scale, and evolve our OAuth 2.0 / OIDC flows and token lifecycle to meet both product and compliance needs. You operate with significant autonomy, but your decisions ripple across teams — so you'll spend real time building buy-in with engineering and security stakeholders, not just designing in isolation. You are technically deep, calm under pressure, and comfortable being the escalation point when production IAM issues get hard. You write the RFCs and design docs that people actually read, and you create leverage for the broader engineering org through documentation, tooling, and mentorship — without needing a management title to do it.
What you'll do
- Be the technical anchor for how Xsolla builds secure, high-scale auth infrastructure — setting direction, making hard architectural calls, and raising the bar across the org.
- Own the strategy behind authentication, authorization, and session management at scale.
- Evolve our OAuth 2.0 / OIDC flows and token lifecycle to meet both product and compliance needs.
- Operate with significant autonomy, but build buy-in with engineering and security stakeholders.
- Be the escalation point when production IAM issues get hard.
- Write RFCs and design docs.
- Create leverage for the broader engineering org through documentation, tooling, and mentorship.
What they require
- Technically deep.
- Calm under pressure.
- Comfortable being the escalation point when production IAM issues get hard.
- Write the RFCs and design docs that people actually read.
- Create leverage for the broader engineering org through documentation, tooling, and mentorship — without needing a management title to do it.
- Strong written communication is essential — your architectural decisions and designs need to stand on their own and be actionable without you in the room.
- Value directness, technical depth, and follow-through.
- If a design or production issue has real security or reliability implications, we expect you to say so clearly, defend your position with evidence, and stay engaged until it's resolved.
Xsolla is a global commerce company with tools and services that help video game developers fund, distribute, market, and monetize their games. It operates as the merchant of record and has helped 1,500+ game developers reach more players and grow their businesses worldwide.
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