Senior Customer Identity Engineer
Air New Zealand12 hours ago
Auckland, New ZealandSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and support customer identity and authentication services.
- Build and maintain Java-based applications, APIs, and backend services.
- Support registration, login, account management, authentication, and other customer journeys.
- Implement authentication and authorization using OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect.
- Build and support integrations between identity services and Air New Zealand platforms.
- Manage source code, testing, builds, and deployments using CI/CD and DevOps practices.
- Support production services, investigate incidents, and resolve root causes.
- Contribute to MFA, session management, certificate, and secrets-related security controls.
- Collaborate with other squads to provide secure and reusable identity patterns.
- Contribute to emerging digital identity and biometric capabilities.
- Participate in a 24/7 rostered on-call rotation.
Requirements
- Around 3+ years of software, platform, or identity engineering experience.
- Strong Java development skills.
- Experience with REST APIs, backend services, and PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
- Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SSO, or related identity standards.
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and source control.
- Experience with containerized applications and cloud platforms.
- Experience with production support, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
- Knowledge of secure software development and API security.
- Experience with monitoring and observability.
- Previous Customer Identity and Access Management experience is valuable but not required.
- Experience with passwordless authentication, passkeys, FIDO2/WebAuthn, identity verification, or biometrics is advantageous.
Benefits
- Salary and benefits package, with expectations open for discussion.
- Participation in a 24/7 rostered on-call rotation.
- Applications close Friday, 6th November.
Tech Stack
About Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand is the flag carrier airline of New Zealand, headquartered in Auckland, operating domestic and international passenger and cargo services across the Pacific, Asia, and North America. Publicly listed on the NZX and majority-owned by the New Zealand Government, it also runs the Airpoints loyalty program and ancillary travel services; the company traces its origins to 1940 (as TEAL) and adopted the Air New Zealand name in 1965.