Senior Customer Identity Engineer
Air New Zealand6 hours ago
Auckland, New ZealandSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and support customer identity and authentication services.
- Build and maintain Java applications, REST APIs, and backend services.
- Support customer journeys including registration, login, account management, and authentication.
- Implement secure authentication and authorization using OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect.
- Build and support integrations between identity services and other 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.
- Provide secure and reusable identity patterns in collaboration 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 and backend services.
- Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
- Knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SSO, or related identity standards.
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and source control.
- Experience with containerized applications and cloud platforms.
- Experience with production support, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
- Knowledge of secure software development and API security.
- Experience with monitoring and observability.
- Customer Identity and Access Management experience is valuable but not required.
- Experience with passwordless authentication, passkeys, FIDO2/WebAuthn, identity verification, or biometrics is advantageous.
Benefits
- Air New Zealand offers a salary and benefits package.
- The role includes participation in a 24/7 rostered on-call rotation.
- Applications close on 27 September 2026.
Tech Stack
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.