Base Salary
$210k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve authentication and authorization architecture across multiple products and services.
- Design and build OAuth 2.0/OIDC flows, token issuance and validation, session management, service-to-service authentication, and fine-grained authorization.
- Lead shared platform services and reusable engineering patterns for consistent and safe microservice development and operations.
- Improve application performance and scalability across APIs, databases, caching layers, middleware, and distributed service interactions.
- Improve developer productivity through CI/CD workflows, reusable tooling, test infrastructure, local development environments, and self-service platform capabilities.
- Establish observability and operational-readiness standards covering monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, SLOs, and safe production rollouts.
- Partner with platform and product teams to protect sensitive customer data, strengthen security boundaries, and meet regulatory requirements.
- Lead architecture, implementation, migration, rollout, and production operations for complex initiatives spanning multiple systems and teams.
- Mentor Senior and Staff engineers, lead architecture and design reviews, and raise engineering quality through technical direction and feedback.
- Drive durable, end-to-end solutions while balancing security, reliability, performance, simplicity, and delivery velocity.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and operating complex production systems at scale.
- Strong practical experience with authentication and authorization, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWTs, session and token management, service-to-service authentication, RBAC, ABAC, and policy-based authorization.
- Deep expertise in backend and distributed systems, including service architecture, APIs, databases, caching, asynchronous processing, and cloud-native systems.
- Strong security fundamentals and technical judgment concerning trust boundaries, identity propagation, least privilege, failure modes, and secure-by-default design.
- Experience leading large, multi-component technical initiatives across team boundaries from architecture through production operations.
- Experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, observability, CI/CD, safe migrations, incremental rollouts, and production reliability.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and mentor engineers through technical leadership, architecture reviews, communication, reusable frameworks, and tooling.
- Preferred experience building centralized identity, authentication, or authorization platforms used across multiple products or engineering teams.
- Preferred experience with AWS Cognito, Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, PostgreSQL, Go, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Knowledge of healthcare security and compliance standards including HIPAA and SOC 2 is preferred.
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About Commure
At Commure, our mission is to simplify healthcare. We have bold ambitions to reimagine the healthcare experience, setting a new standard for how care is delivered and experienced across the industry. Our growing suite of AI solutions spans ambient AI clinical documentation, provider copilots, autonomous coding, revenue cycle management and more — all designed for providers & administrators to focus on what matters most: providing care. Healthcare is a $4.5 trillion industry with more than $500 billion spent annually on administrative costs, and Commure is at the heart of transforming it. We power over 500,000 clinicians across hundreds of care sites nationwide – more than $10 billion flows through our systems and we support over 100 million patient interactions. With new product launches on the horizon, expansion into additional care segments, and a bold vision to tackle healthcare's most pressing challenges, our ambition is to move from upstart innovator to the industry standard over the next few years. Commure was recently named to Fortune’s Future 50 list for 2025 and is backed by world-class investors including General Catalyst, Sequoia, Y Combinator, Lux, Human Capital, 8VC, Greenoaks Capital, Elad Gil, and more. Commure has achieved over 300% year-over-year growth for the past two years and this is only the beginning. Healthcare's moment for AI-powered transformation is here, and we're building the technology to power it. Come join us in shaping the future of healthcare.