Senior Software Engineer, Security

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate authentication, authorization, access governance, secrets management, and privileged access services.
• Own identity infrastructure including SSO, SCIM, and fine-grained enterprise authorization.
• Build secure-by-default libraries, paved-road abstractions, and self-service security tooling.
• Take security systems from greenfield architecture through production deployment, instrumentation, and reliability ownership.
• Contribute to incident response and drive technical mitigation for security issues.
• Raise security standards through design reviews, code reviews, and technical mentorship.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping and operating production services.
• Hands-on experience building security infrastructure such as IAM, authentication and authorization, secrets management, or privileged access.
• Knowledge of common vulnerability classes and the ability to analyze attacker-focused system failures.
• Strong programming skills and willingness to work across stacks and unfamiliar domains.
• Experience maintaining production services with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure on Azure, GCP, or AWS and modern distributed system patterns.
• Ability to translate security requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence without formal authority.
• Preferred experience building security platforms or programs at hyper-growth startups.
• Preferred background in developer platform or infrastructure engineering.
• Preferred experience with SCIM, OIDC, SAML, policy engines such as OPA, Cedar, or Zanzibar-style systems, or hardware-backed credentials.
• Preferred experience in highly regulated enterprise environments.