4 hours ago
Base Salary
$159k - $234k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and delivery initiatives across authentication, authorization, account lifecycles, and partner relationships.
- Define technical direction for multi-service systems, including API contracts, data models, migration paths, and rollout strategies.
- Translate product, security, and business requirements into designs while coordinating cross-functional dependencies.
- Build scalable backend services and improve testing, observability, deployment safety, and operational reliability.
- Mentor engineers across teams and raise technical design and operating standards.
- Develop centralized authentication, token validation, RBAC/ReBAC access control, account identity workflows, and event-driven services.
Requirements
- Proven Staff-level experience guiding cross-team architecture and resolving high-impact technical trade-offs.
- Expertise in API design, distributed systems, data modeling, and production operations.
- Experience solving high-stakes problems where security, correctness, and performance are critical.
- Ability to write clear design documentation, align non-technical stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools into engineering work and critically evaluate their output in security-sensitive systems.
- Bonus experience with OAuth, OIDC, JWTs, RBAC, ReBAC, or OpenFGA.
- Bonus proficiency with Go, Python, Kafka, AWS, and modern CI/CD stacks.
- Bonus experience in security-sensitive environments, fintech, insurtech, complex partner integrations, or responsible AI use in regulated environments.
Benefits
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible PTO policy.
- Annual home office stipend and WeWork access.
- Mental and physical health wellness programs including One Medical, Headspace, and Wellhub.
- Remote-first work culture.
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement.
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About Coalition
Coalition builds cyber insurance and active risk management for businesses, combining coverage with cybersecurity tools, automated alerts, and MDR. It distributes policies in the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia through partner insurers and its own carrier, Coalition Insurance Company, and provides its Coalition Control cyber risk platform. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held.