Tempus

Staff Software Engineer, Security

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Base Salary

$160k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set the technical vision and lead architectural decisions for security engineering, including IAM evolution and build-versus-buy decisions.
  • Develop and secure customer identity, authentication, authorization, and observability systems across a microservices architecture.
  • Manage and improve security microservices, custom frameworks, engineering tooling, and related standards.
  • Secure distributed, event-based systems and agentic AI infrastructure handling patient records and intellectual property.
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and other cross-functional teams on priorities, scope, trade-offs, and internal security standards.
  • Identify engineering gaps and drive improvements in tooling, designs, processes, and technical practices.
  • Provide mentorship, documentation, training, presentations, and technical leadership across the organization.

Requirements

  • Several years of experience working on software development teams and setting technical vision for a product area.
  • Experience with technical analysis and design, technology trade-offs, build-versus-buy decisions, and establishing engineering best practices.
  • Experience developing and securing distributed, event-based systems at significant transaction or data scale.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure providers such as Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud and tools such as Docker, Terraform, or Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with identity management platforms such as Auth0, Okta, Microsoft Entra, or Ping Identity.
  • Comfort working across multiple programming languages and frameworks.
  • Experience collaborating cross-functionally, troubleshooting roadblocks, documenting systems, and mentoring engineers.
  • Preferred experience with OAuth, SCIM, SAML, OAuth 2.1, agentic controls, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, Chronicle, SIEMs, and authorization models including RBAC, ReBAC, ABAC, and PBAC.

Benefits

  • Tempus offers a full range of benefits, which may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical benefits, and other benefits depending on the position.
  • The stated salary range is $160,000–$220,000 for roles performed from California and may vary for Colorado, Illinois, and New York locations.
  • Remote roles may be open to individuals in unincorporated Los Angeles, subject to applicable fair-chance employment laws.
Tempus

About Tempus

1,001-5,000 employees

Tempus builds AI-enabled precision medicine tools and genomic tests used by physicians and health systems, with a core focus on oncology. It sells diagnostics, clinical decision-support software, and real‑world data services to providers and biopharma for drug discovery and trials. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Chicago, Tempus is a public company listed on Nasdaq.

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