Staff Software Engineer - Authentication

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PindropCybersecurity, authentication

US - RemoteFull-TimeStaff

Salary130,000 - 185,000 USD per year

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Have 8+ years of professional software development experience building backend services and APIs, or equivalent practical depth.
Demonstrate Staff-level impact by leading significant technical initiatives across multiple services or domains and delivering measurable outcomes.
Bring strong hands-on experience with Go, Python, or similar languages.
Have a deep foundation in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and Linux-based development.
Have deep experience designing and operating cloud-native systems in AWS or GCP, including managed services such as S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, and IAM.
Have proven ownership of highly available systems, including deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, and operational improvement.
Have experience using CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Have experience defining or influencing technical standards, architecture, or roadmaps across team boundaries.
Communicate clearly in writing and verbally, document decisions, and build alignment among stakeholders.
Nice to have experience with Redis, MySQL, RabbitMQ, and Elasticsearch.
Nice to have experience in authentication, identity, fraud prevention, or other security-sensitive product environments.
Nice to have observability experience across metrics, logs, and traces.

Define and evolve the technical strategy and architectural direction for Passport's cloud services.
Lead complex initiatives from problem framing and design through implementation, rollout, and operational follow-through using Go and Python.
Set technical standards and reusable patterns for cloud-native services across AWS and GCP, including Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3.
Make and communicate tradeoffs involving reliability, scalability, latency, security, cost, and time to market.
Identify architectural gaps and systemic risks, and drive mitigation.
Partner with engineering, test, research, and product teams to align roadmaps and deliver capabilities.
Lead technical reviews and facilitate alignment on design decisions, migration strategies, and ownership boundaries.
Participate in incident response and turn operational learnings into improvements in alerting, runbooks, deployment quality, and service ownership.
Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and hands-on collaboration.
Participate in the team's on-call rotation, including helping cover after-hours alerts.

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