Senior Software Engineer, Identity Core

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Identity Core based in the United States.**

This remote opportunity is ideal for an experienced backend engineer who is passionate about building secure, highly available systems that operate at global scale. As a Senior Software Engineer, Identity Core, you will help design and evolve the services that power authentication, authorization, and identity management for millions of users and enterprise organizations. Working alongside cross-functional engineering, product, and design teams, you will develop resilient cloud-native solutions that prioritize security, reliability, and performance. You'll contribute throughout the software development lifecycle while helping shape a seamless identity experience for developers worldwide. This role offers the opportunity to solve complex distributed systems challenges, influence platform architecture, and make a lasting impact on mission-critical infrastructure.

### Accountabilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Go (Golang) to support authentication, authorization, identity management, and application integrations.
• Build highly available, geo-redundant services that deliver reliable performance across multiple cloud regions while supporting global-scale operations.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineering teams to deliver secure, user-focused features that balance performance, usability, and scalability.
• Contribute to frontend integrations and administrative workflows using modern web technologies to ensure seamless end-to-end user experiences.
• Participate in on-call rotations, proactively monitoring service health and maintaining high availability and operational excellence.
• Write clean, maintainable, and thoroughly tested code while promoting engineering best practices through collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Continuously improve platform reliability, security, observability, and performance by identifying opportunities for architectural enhancements and operational efficiencies.
• Support the ongoing evolution of identity infrastructure to meet the growing needs of developers, enterprise customers, and cloud-native applications.

## Requirements

• Professional experience in software engineering with a proven track record of building, maintaining, and delivering production-grade software applications.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Go, Java, Python, C#, C++, JavaScript, Ruby, or Rust, with experience developing backend services.
• Experience designing scalable distributed systems, cloud-native applications, and highly available services.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, identity management, or access control systems is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript is considered a plus.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and designing systems for operational excellence.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, microservices architecture, and modern software development best practices.
• Experience contributing to developer platforms, identity services, Git-based workflows, APIs, or open-source projects is advantageous.
• Strong problem-solving, collaboration, communication, and software design skills with a commitment to code quality and continuous improvement.

## Benefits

• Competitive base salary ranging from **$124,000 to $329,200 USD**, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
• Fully remote work opportunity within the United States.
• Eligibility for annual performance bonuses and equity awards, where applicable.
• Comprehensive employee benefits package, including healthcare coverage.
• Generous paid time off and company holidays.
• Learning, professional development, and career growth opportunities.
• Flexible remote-first work environment that supports work-life balance.
• Inclusive, collaborative culture focused on innovation, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.