Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture and delivery of a new permission service from design to production.
- Define BambooHR's authentication and authorization standards.
- Design the API contract for the permission service.
- Drive token strategy including issuance, rotation, and revocation.
- Partner with product and platform teams to translate access control requirements.
- Lead architectural reviews for features with AuthN/AuthZ implications.
- Collaborate with Security and Compliance to meet audit and security requirements.
- Mentor engineers and ensure implementation quality matches architectural intent.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years at Staff or Principal level.
- Deep expertise in identity and access management, including authentication protocols and authorization models.
- Experience designing and building AuthN/AuthZ systems at scale.
- Strong instincts for policy-as-code and permission modeling.
- Experience with OpenAPI specifications and microservice architectures.
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals, particularly in PHP.
- Proven ability to drive architectural decisions and build consensus across teams.
- Excellent communication skills for technical specifications and presentations.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance.
- Generous leave policies including 4 weeks of vacation and parental leave.
- 401k plans with up to 6% company match.
- $2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus.
- EAP through Headspace.
- Recognized great company culture.
About BambooHR
For 16 years, BambooHR has embarked on a mission to help organizations and their employees build better workplaces and achieve their unique missions. We call it “setting people free to do great work.” We believe one of the best ways to do this is by transforming workplace friction into workplace freedom by replacing tedious processes with intuitive experiences and turning dispersed data into strategic insights that inform better decisions. Serving more than 34,000 customers and 3 million employees across 190 countries, BambooHR is more than just HR software—it’s a complete HR ecosystem designed to manage, protect, enrich, report on, extend, and benchmark people data in a way that drives business goals and smarter decision making. Our vision is to become the #1 HR platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) around the world, and we empower organizations at every stage to make the most impact. We are proud to serve clients across all industries ranging from startups to household names such as Bitcoin.com, Quora, Le Creuset, MasterClass, and the New York City Ballet. For Customer Support, please reach out to support@bamboohr.com.