Senior Engineering Manager, Identity Platform

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JobgetherIdentity platform

Based in CanadaFull-TimeManager

Salary170,000 - 220,000 CAD per year

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Experience: 8+ years of software engineering experience; at least 3 years of direct software engineering team management experience.
Required Skills: KubernetesGoMicroservices

Have 8+ years of software engineering experience building production SaaS applications, backend platforms, or distributed systems.
Have at least 3 years of direct software engineering team management experience, including hiring, performance management, technical delivery, and career development.
Have experience designing, developing, or operating production identity and access management systems using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML, or enterprise single sign-on (SSO).
Have experience leading modernization, migration, or re-architecture of production backend services or customer-facing platforms.
Have experience guiding architecture and operating cloud-based distributed systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including production reliability and incident management.
Go or similar backend programming language and microservices architecture experience are assets.
Experience with Kubernetes, API gateways, service mesh technologies such as Istio, or other cloud-native infrastructure is preferred.
Experience with identity platforms such as Zitadel, Keycloak, Auth0, Okta, or Microsoft Entra ID is an advantage.
Knowledge of multi-tenant SaaS identity, machine authentication, token lifecycle management, or fine-grained authorization is beneficial.
Experience managing distributed engineering teams across multiple locations or time zones is preferred.
Familiarity with phased migrations, feature-flagged deployments, reliability improvements, and AI-assisted development practices is an asset.

Lead, coach, and develop the engineering team responsible for authentication, authorization, identity services, and platform integrations, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
Modernize the identity platform by migrating capabilities from a monolithic application into scalable, independently deployable services.
Guide architecture and technical decisions for authentication, federated identity, session management, token issuance, and API access across multiple products.
Collaborate with Product, Architecture, and Security teams to define priorities, coordinate dependencies, establish milestones, and manage delivery risks.
Oversee development and operation of backend services using Go, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and related platform technologies.
Improve platform availability, security, observability, incident response, and deployment reliability through safe migration, testing, and rollback practices.
Support identity capabilities including OAuth clients, personal access tokens, delegated authorization, user provisioning, and multi-tenant access management.
Establish engineering practices for delivery, testing, technical quality, and team effectiveness, including responsible adoption of AI-assisted development tools.

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