IFS

Principal Platform Engineer || Identity Platform (AuthN/AuthZ)

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2 days ago
Dublin, IrelandStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate shared authentication and authorization platform services for product engineering teams.
  • Unify authorization across cloud-native, legacy hosting, and lifecycle cloud environments.
  • Write and review infrastructure, automation, integration, platform-service, and Go-based tooling code.
  • Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, upgrades, recovery, rollbacks, backups, and operational workflows.
  • Create documented, automated, self-service identity capabilities that reduce manual intervention for developers.
  • Deploy and operate containerized application services on Kubernetes in production software-delivery environments.
  • Implement authentication flows, permission checks, access-control models, tenant isolation, and identity-provider integrations.
  • Own platform capabilities in production, including observability, performance testing, reliability, troubleshooting, and prevention of recurring failures.
  • Provide technical leadership through architecture decisions, code reviews, engineering standards, and support for other engineers.

Requirements

  • Substantial hands-on experience building and operating platforms or shared infrastructure for software engineering teams.
  • Strong coding and scripting skills applied to infrastructure, automation, deployment tooling, or integrations, with comfort maintaining code, reviewing changes, and using automated tests.
  • Experience automating provisioning, configuration, deployment, and operational tasks through version-controlled, repeatable workflows.
  • Production experience with Kubernetes and containers in environments delivering and operating software applications.
  • Practical experience with a major public cloud platform, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and GitOps.
  • Experience building reusable platform capabilities or self-service workflows that reduce manual engineering effort.
  • Sound understanding of APIs, networking, data stores, and distributed-system behavior, with the ability to troubleshoot production issues.
  • Practical experience implementing authentication and access control in software applications, APIs, or shared platform services.
  • Working knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, token-based authentication, secure validation, permission models, least privilege, tenant isolation, and access-decision enforcement.
  • Ability to translate security requirements into working software, automated tests, and maintainable platform capabilities.
  • Technical leadership experience through design decisions, code reviews, engineering standards, and support for other engineers.
  • Willingness to work with Go-based tooling and services and develop further Go capabilities as needed.
  • Preferred experience includes Curity, Keycloak, SpiceDB or comparable relationship-based authorization engines, enterprise federation, SAML, policy-as-code, distributed multi-tenant identity systems, self-service identity APIs or SDKs, Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and RedPanda.
  • Demonstrable hands-on experience designing, building, and shipping production AI applications is required by the posting.

Benefits

  • Flexible and hybrid work opportunities are available.
  • The role provides substantial technical ownership and impact across the engineering organization.
  • The position offers the opportunity to work on enterprise-scale cloud-native and AI engineering products in a global, diverse environment.
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About IFS

5,001-10,000 employees

IFS builds IFS Cloud, an enterprise suite covering ERP, EAM, FSM, SCM, and project/service management for manufacturers and asset‑intensive organizations. Its business model centers on software subscriptions and services for cloud and hybrid deployments, plus industry-specific modules and consulting. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Linköping, Sweden, the company is privately held under EQT ownership and operates globally across industrial and service-focused markets.

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