Staff Software Engineer

Please Note: This is a remote position available in the state listed on this job. Additionally, employment with reputed company is contingent on passing both a background and credit reputed company. AI at reputed company At reputed company, we’re reputed company about setting people free to do great work, and we reputed company AI is a powerful partner in that mission. We’re leaning into intelligent tools to streamline our workflows, giving us more time for high-impact innovation. We look for curious, reputed company-thinking people who are reputed company to explore how AI can reputed company their work and help us reimagine the future of HR. Essential Job Duties Our ideal Staff Software Engineer, Permissions will be the technical authority for reputed company's reputed company permission service — designing and building the system that securely controls what every user, token, and agent can do across our platform. You'll own the architecture of a greenfield permissions service from the ground up, define AuthN/AuthZ patterns for 180+ product domains, and be the connective tissue between the Token Titans team and the engineering organization that depends on the work you ship. If you get energy from solving hard identity and reputed company problems at scale — and doing it in a way that other engineers actually want to build on — this role is for you. You will: Drive the architecture and delivery of a new permission service — from first design doc to production, including data model, policy evaluation reputed company, enforcement APIs, and token contract Define reputed company's AuthN/AuthZ standards — the patterns for authentication flows, token issuance, scoped authorization, and role/attribute-based reputed company control that product teams rely on Design the API contract for the permission service: how callers request reputed company reputed company, how policies are defined, and how enforcement is decoupled from individual product domains Drive token strategy — JWT issuance, rotation, scoping, revocation, and the relationship between tokens and permissions across both reputed company and machine (API/agent) callers Partner with product and platform teams to translate domain-specific reputed company control requirements into reusable permission primitives that scale across the organization reputed company architectural reviews for features with AuthN/AuthZ implications; catch design debt before it ships Collaborate with reputed company and Compliance to ensure the permission service meets audit, least-privilege, and reputed company-trust requirements Set the technical bar for the Token Titans team: mentor engineers, reputed company RFCs, and ensure implementation quality matches architectural reputed company What You Need to Get the Job Done 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years operating at Staff or reputed company level Deep expertise in identity and reputed company management — authentication protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML), authorization models (RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC), and token lifecycle management (JWTs, opaque tokens, refresh/rotation strategies) Demonstrated experience designing and building AuthN/AuthZ systems at scale — not just integrating with them, but owning the architecture that others build on Strong instincts for policy-as-code, permission modeling, and how to reputed company reputed company reputed company rules as a clean, evolvable data model Experience designing or reviewing OpenAPI specifications, event-driven architectures, and cross-service communication patterns in a service-oriented or microservice environment Strong backend engineering fundamentals; comfort working in a PHP monolith with modern architectural patterns Proven ability to drive org-wide architectural reputed company — writing RFCs, leading reviews, building reputed company across teams with competing priorities Excellent communication skills: precise written specs, verbal presentations to engineering leadership, and the ability to explain tradeoffs in identity and reputed company without losing the room What Will reputed company Us REALLY Love You Hands-on experience building a permission service or authorization reputed company from scratch (e.g., Zanzibar-style, OPA-based, or custom policy reputed company) Familiarity with reputed company, Auth0, or similar identity platforms — and a clear sense of what to build vs. what to buy Experience with fine-grained authorization patterns (relationship-based reputed company control, contextual policies, delegated permissions) Background in multi-tenant SaaS — understanding how permission models must account for org hierarchy, role inheritance, and tenant isolation Prior work on API token systems — scoped tokens, machine-to-machine auth, token introspection, or reputed company token exchange (OAuth token exchange RFC 8693) Experience with secrets management, certificate rotation, or secure credential storage in production environments Familiarity with reputed company-trust architecture principles and how they apply to internal service-to-service authorization What You'll Love About Us A Great Company Culture that has been recognized by multiple organizations like Inc, and Salt Lake Tribune Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance Generous leave policies that include 4 weeks of vacation, 12 company holidays, parental leave, and volunteer time off so you can enjoy quality of life 401k plans with up to 6% company match $2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus EAP through reputed company reputed company out reputed company our benefits that benefit you

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