Staff Software Engineer – Identity and Access
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Grafana LabsObservability software
This role is available for candidates located in the UK, Germany, Spain, Ireland and Sweden.Full-TimeStaff
Salary£100,000 - £124,000
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Job Details
- Languages
- English
- Required Skills
- LDAPOAuthGoDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Proven expertise in distributed systems engineering with Go.
- Track record of owning and delivering large-scale production systems end-to-end.
- Demonstrated ability to define technical direction and drive architectural decisions independently.
- Extensive experience building and operating low-latency, high-throughput services in distributed, multi-tenant environments.
- Proven track record of leading and delivering complex, multi-quarter initiatives spanning multiple teams or systems.
- Ability to mentor and develop senior engineers.
- Strong understanding of SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and system design for reliability, security, and velocity.
- Expert-level understanding of modern identity standards and threat models (OAuth 2.x/2.1, OIDC, SAML).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the technical architecture for the Identity squad’s authentication systems, including edge authentication redesign.
- Lead the design and implementation of large-scale, multi-quarter initiatives in the critical path of user interaction.
- Mentor and develop senior engineers, providing technical guidance, design feedback, and support for professional growth.
- Serve as a technical authority for identity protocols, driving alignment on implementation of OAuth, OIDC, SAML, LDAP, and SCIM.
- Drive cross-team technical alignment on authentication standards, patterns, and best practices.
- Represent Grafana Labs at meetups and conferences, and contribute to the broader identity and authentication community.
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