Software Engineer II - Authorization Team

Software Engineer II - Authorization Team Atlanta PagerDuty is seeking a Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our diverse and customer-focused team! You’ll be working on our authentication and authorization platform, a core part of our business that helps organizations securely access and govern the usage of their data within PagerDuty. You’ll work across the full stack, including Rails and React, while helping pioneer agentic development practices that treat AI as a first-class engineering partner. The Authentication and Authorization Team is looking for a passionate software engineer to help build the future security platform for the Operations Cloud. You’ll help realize our long-term vision for an innovative, flexible, and extensible identity platform, building the AI-native foundations of highly available services, scalable databases, and secure APIs that underpin both our own users and the growing set of AI and agentic products that rely on PagerDuty for secure access. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to partner with product and design on shaping new features for our customers, and you’ll help promote engineering excellence across our design, development, test, and release cycles. Key Responsibilities From day one, you’ll be designing, coding, testing and shipping backend applications and microservices, APIs, and front‑end interfaces that ensure we deliver secure, highly reliable and scalable solutions to our customers. Since we own and operate what we build, you’ll collaborate closely with engineers across teams. With 20,000+ global customers and growing, you’ll be solving really interesting technical challenges while helping to scale our product to keep up with demand. Participating in your team’s on‑call rotation, triaging and addressing production issues as they arise. Basic Qualifications Minimum of 4 years of experience designing, building, and operating large systems with scalability, availability, and performance requirements. Development experience building and operating customer-facing, web-based products. Demonstrated experience with Ruby, React, and AI coding tools. Preferred Qualifications Operational experience in cloud technologies such as AWS. Experience with languages such as Elixir or Java. Operational experience with databases & tools (e.g. MySQL, Aurora, Kafka, NoSQL, applying software engineering principles to data problems, etc.). Experience building user-facing public APIs. Experience designing & implementing distributed and highly available systems. Exposure to or interest in authentication/authorization concepts (e.g. OAuth, SSO, RBAC/ReBAC) a plus. The base salary range for this position is 113,000 - 190,300 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, and/or benefits. Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range, which is subject to change based on primary work location, reflects the minimum and maximum base salary we expect to pay newly hired employees for the position. Within the range, we determine pay for an individual based on a number of factors including market location, job‑related knowledge, skills/competencies and experience. Benefits Company equity ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program) Retirement or pension plan Generous paid vacation time Paid holidays and sick leave Duttonian Wellness Days & HibernationDuty - companywide paid days off in addition to PTO Paid parental leave: 22 weeks for pregnant parent, 12 weeks for non‑pregnant parent (some countries have longer leave standards and we comply with local laws) Paid volunteer time off: 20 hours per year Mental wellness programs PagerDuty is an equal opportunity employer. PagerDuty does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, parental status, veteran status, or disability status. Your privacy is important to us. By submitting an application, you confirm that you have read and understand PagerDuty’s Privacy Policy. PagerDuty is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you require accommodation, please email View email address on click.appcast.io and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. PagerDuty uses the E-Verify employment verification program. #J-18808-Ljbffr