Base Salary
$139k - $235k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement authentication, token issuance, validation, and identity services across the Rails monolith and GATE.
- Migrate authentication and token-management paths from the monolith into GATE while maintaining reliability across deployment models.
- Build authentication mechanisms such as Workload Identity Federation, passkeys, passwordless authentication, service accounts, and secure automation improvements.
- Improve access management security and address vulnerabilities reported through the HackerOne program.
- Solve high-scope technical problems across Go and Ruby codebases and contribute to technical direction and GATE’s roadmap.
- Define and maintain engineering standards through code review, collaborate on larger projects, and contribute to public communication and the maintainer trainee program.
Requirements
- Professional experience with Go and/or Ruby in scaling or mission-critical software-as-a-service products.
- Familiarity with OAuth, OpenID Connect, Security Assertion Markup Language, single sign-on, System for Cross-domain Identity Management, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, JSON Web Token, role-based access control, or identity and access management.
- Knowledge of token systems, cryptographic signing, and key management.
- Experience contributing to a service from concept through production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
- Experience diagnosing and preventing performance and optimization problems.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills for a remote, largely asynchronous environment.
- Experience working effectively in a highly agile, iterative software development process.
Benefits
- Health, financial, and well-being benefits.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Team Member Resource Groups.
- Equity Compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Growth and Development Fund.
- Parental leave.
- Fully remote work arrangement, with country and location eligibility requirements that may apply.
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