Senior Backend Software Engineer, Authorization

About the Team
Welcome to the Authorization Services Team! We are the backbone of the company's security infrastructure, responsible for providing cutting-edge authorization services that are integral to nearly every employee and microservice within our organization.

Our mission is to develop and sustain a state-of-the-art model that enforces the principle of least privilege throughout all operations. Our user-friendly interfaces enable employees and microservices to interact seamlessly with our authorization systems, making complex security protocols both accessible and manageable.

Job Responsibilities:
Our authorization services are highly data-intensive and operate at scale, requiring solutions to classic and complex backend challenges to achieve consistently high throughput and low latency. As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping, building, and evolving these systems.

1. System Design and Ownership:
- Lead the design, implementation, and long-term maintenance of critical backend services or our authorization systems, making sound architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, and security.
2. Performance and Scalability:
- Drive performance optimization efforts across the stack, proactively identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions to support high throughput, low latency, and predictable system behavior under load.
3. Security Leadership:
- Champion security best practices by design, including least-privilege principles, defense-in-depth strategies, and secure coding standards, ensuring our authorization services meet high security and compliance requirements.
4. Code Quality and Engineering Excellence:
- Set a high bar for code quality through thoughtful design, thorough reviews, and comprehensive automated testing, improving the maintainability, reliability, and robustness of the codebase.
5. Troubleshooting and Reliability:
- Lead complex debugging and incident resolution efforts, develop tools and processes to improve observability, and contribute to the overall reliability and availability of our systems.
6. Collaboration and Technical Leadership:
- Collaborate closely with engineers, security specialists, product partners, and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions, mentor junior engineers, and influence the team’s technical direction and best practices.

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $187040 - $359720 annually.