Principal Engineer: Platform, Identity

Role Description

The Principal Engineer serves as the Technical Lead for an Identity Platform (Morpheus) engineering pod responsible for delivering secure, scalable, cloud-native identity and access management capabilities supporting Frontline's multi-tenant SaaS ecosystem. This role provides technical leadership, implementation guidance, and architectural stewardship for the pod while remaining actively engaged in hands-on engineering activities including software design, implementation, code reviews, troubleshooting, and operational support.

The Principal Engineer partners closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Platform Architects, QA Engineers, and peer Technical Leads to ensure solutions align with established architectural patterns, engineering standards, security requirements, and long-term platform strategy. The role participates throughout the product lifecycle including discovery, refinement, implementation, delivery, and operational support. The Principal Engineer is responsible for helping teams make pragmatic technical decisions that balance customer outcomes, delivery objectives, scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven experience leading technical execution for engineering teams or pods.
• Strong experience designing and building distributed cloud-native systems.
• Deep understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM) concepts and standards including:
  • OAuth2
  • OpenID Connect (OIDC)
  • Authentication and authorization flows
  • Federated identity concepts
  • Token-based security models
• Strong proficiency in:
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • NestJS
  • React
• Experience designing and building APIs and microservices in a multi-tenant SaaS environment.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud-native development including services such as:
  • Lambda
  • S3
  • SNS/SQS
  • Container-based workloads
• Experience with:
  • Docker
  • PostgreSQL or Aurora PostgreSQL
  • EKS
  • Graph or relationship-oriented data modeling concepts
  • AWS Neptune or equivalent graph technologies
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture and messaging technologies such as Kafka.
• Experience operating within Agile/Scrum delivery models.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and elevate engineering practices across teams.

Requirements

• Experience with Okta or similar enterprise identity providers.
• Experience with Kong Gateway and API gateway patterns.
• Familiarity with service mesh concepts and technologies.
• Experience with Kubernetes or container orchestration platforms.
• Experience building shared platform services consumed across multiple product teams.
• Familiarity with platform adoption and enablement challenges in large engineering organizations.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted or agentic development workflows in professional software engineering environments.
• Experience collaborating with offshore or geographically distributed engineering teams.

Benefits

• The full base compensation range for this position is $160,000-$185,000.
• Bonus eligibility and long-term incentive opportunities.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Generous paid time off and tuition reimbursement.