5 days ago
Remote, ChileStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision, architecture, roadmap, and migration strategy for the authentication and authorization platform.
- Design, build, and operate scalable API gateway and identity services primarily in Golang using AWS and relational databases.
- Lead phased, zero-downtime migrations with rollback and safety mechanisms.
- Establish authentication and authorization standards covering OAuth2/OIDC, token strategies, service-to-service authentication, RBAC, ABAC, and policy engines.
- Drive consistency, scalability, performance, reliability, observability, security, and CI/CD practices across distributed services.
- Partner with Security and Compliance on fintech-grade security and regulatory requirements.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and postmortems for owned services.
- Mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and translate business goals into technical roadmaps.
Requirements
- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant backend experience.
- Recent experience deploying significant production changes within the past 30 days.
- Deep hands-on expertise with authentication and authorization systems, including OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML, JWT, session-based authentication, token lifecycle management, RBAC, ABAC, and policy-as-code.
- Experience designing, building, or operating an API gateway or auth proxy at scale.
- Experience leading large-scale service extraction or migration projects with minimal customer impact.
- Strong Golang proficiency and experience building RESTful APIs.
- Expertise with SQL-based relational databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL, and performance optimization.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, queues, transactional outbox patterns, and high-throughput edge services.
- Ability to influence decisions and lead complex technical initiatives across multiple teams.
- Current hands-on use of AI development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or custom LLM integrations.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field.
- Preferred experience with identity platforms, service mesh and edge technologies, observability tools, AWS infrastructure, fintech or payments, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, commercial APIs, and platform infrastructure.
Benefits
- Fully remote, full-time role with no relocation or commute requirement.
- Monthly gross compensation range of $6,000-$11,000 USD, negotiable based on location and experience.
Tech Stack
AmbassadorAWSDatadogDockerElasticsearchGitGoGrafanaIstioKubernetesMySQLPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonReactReact NativeTypeScript
