Staff Software Engineer, Identity and Authorization

About the role

A senior technical role anchoring the next phase of a centralized identity and access platform, serving customers in heavily regulated industries.

What you will do

• Set the architectural direction for secure, scalable identity and access solutions
• Extend a fine-grained, relationship-based authorization model across the platform
• Harden the authorization layer for enterprise and public-sector scale, reliability and security
• Plan and sequence the retirement of legacy access checks without disrupting customers
• Lead design reviews, unblock engineers and set patterns for AI-assisted development

What they look for

• Experience designing identity and access solutions for complex, regulated environments
• Strong architectural judgement and the ability to explain decisions clearly
• Track record of raising engineering standards through reviews and mentoring
• Ability to reduce technical debt and improve delivery speed
• Familiarity with relationship-based authorization and cloud-native identity