Senior Software Engineer, Identity Core

About the Role

This remote opportunity is ideal for an experienced backend engineer who is passionate about building secure, highly available systems that operate at global scale. As a Senior Software Engineer, Identity Core, you will help design and evolve the services that power authentication, authorization, and identity management for millions of users and enterprise organizations. Working alongside cross-functional engineering, product, and design teams, you will develop resilient cloud-native solutions that prioritize security, reliability, and performance. You'll contribute throughout the software development lifecycle while helping shape a seamless identity experience for developers worldwide. This role offers the opportunity to solve complex distributed systems challenges, influence platform architecture, and make a lasting impact on mission-critical infrastructure.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Go (Golang) to support authentication, authorization, identity management, and application integrations.
• Build highly available, geo-redundant services that deliver reliable performance across multiple cloud regions while supporting global-scale operations.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineering teams to deliver secure, user-focused features that balance performance, usability, and scalability.
• Contribute to frontend integrations and administrative workflows using modern web technologies to ensure seamless end-to-end user experiences.
• Participate in on-call rotations, proactively monitoring service health and maintaining high availability and operational excellence.
• Write clean, maintainable, and thoroughly tested code while promoting engineering best practices through collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Continuously improve platform reliability, security, observability, and performance by identifying opportunities for architectural enhancements and operational efficiencies.
• Support the ongoing evolution of identity infrastructure to meet the growing needs of developers, enterprise customers, and cloud-native applications.

Who You Are

• Professional experience in software engineering with a proven track record of building, maintaining, and delivering production-grade software applications.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Go, Java, Python, C#, C++, JavaScript, Ruby, or Rust, with experience developing backend services.
• Experience designing scalable distributed systems, cloud-native applications, and highly available services.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, identity management, or access control systems is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript is considered a plus.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and designing systems for operational excellence.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, microservices architecture, and modern software development best practices.
• Experience contributing to developer platforms, identity services, Git-based workflows, APIs, or open-source projects is advantageous.
• Strong problem-solving, collaboration, communication, and software design skills with a commitment to code quality and continuous improvement.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary ranging from $124,000 to $329,200 USD, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
• Fully remote work opportunity within the United States.
• Eligibility for annual performance bonuses and equity awards, where applicable.
• Comprehensive employee benefits package, including healthcare coverage.
• Generous paid time off and holidays.