Senior Customer Identity Engineer
Air New Zealand2 days ago
Auckland, New ZealandSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and support customer identity and authentication services.
- Build and maintain Java-based applications, APIs, and backend services.
- Support registration, login, account management, and authentication customer journeys.
- Implement authentication and authorization using OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect.
- Build and support integrations between identity services and Air New Zealand platforms.
- Manage source code, testing, builds, and deployments using CI/CD and DevOps practices.
- Support production services, investigate incidents, and resolve root causes.
- Contribute to security controls including MFA, session management, certificates, and secrets.
- Develop secure and reusable identity patterns with other squads.
- Contribute to emerging digital identity and biometric capabilities.
- Participate in a 24/7 rostered on-call rotation.
Requirements
- Around 3+ years of software, platform, or identity engineering experience.
- Strong Java development skills.
- Experience with REST APIs, backend services, PostgreSQL or similar relational databases, and identity standards such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, or SSO.
- Experience with automated testing, source control, containerized applications, cloud platforms, production support, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, secure software development, API security, monitoring, and observability.
- Previous Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) experience is valuable but not required.
- Experience with passwordless authentication, passkeys, FIDO2/WebAuthn, identity verification, or biometrics is advantageous.
Benefits
- Salary and benefits package; expectations are open for discussion with the successful candidate.
- Applications close Friday, 6th November.
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About Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand is the flag carrier airline of New Zealand, headquartered in Auckland, operating domestic and international passenger and cargo services across the Pacific, Asia, and North America. Publicly listed on the NZX and majority-owned by the New Zealand Government, it also runs the Airpoints loyalty program and ancillary travel services; the company traces its origins to 1940 (as TEAL) and adopted the Air New Zealand name in 1965.