Post-launch startup rebuilding enterprise identity infrastructure for modern security teams.
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
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You'll spend most days in Go, designing the control plane that governs how thousands of workers access critical systems. The core challenge is making authorization decisions in single-digit milliseconds while the policy engine evolves weekly. Expect to refactor hot paths in PostgreSQL query plans, debug goroutine leaks in staging clusters, and occasionally ship a Python tool when the ecosystem demands it. This is infrastructure work where a bad deploy means locked doors, not a broken checkout flow.
What they're looking for
- 4+ years shipping production backend systems, with substantial Go experience
- Deep comfort with PostgreSQL: query optimization, partitioning, and transaction design
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience beyond kubectl apply: operators, controllers, or cluster debugging
- Demonstrated ability to build CI/CD pipelines that catch failure modes before they reach prod
- Familiarity with Python for tooling, and with identity/security concepts like OAuth, SCIM, or policy engines