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Staff+ Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure Engineering

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and build secure, scalable identity and access management solutions protecting model weights, customer data, and critical systems across cloud environments.

Role type

Staff+ Software Engineer (Identity Infrastructure)

Builds

Identity infrastructure, authentication/authorization systems, access governance, and operational platforms for engineering and research teams.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure / Identity & Access Management / Security

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Large-scale distributed systems design, cloud infrastructure operations, infrastructure-as-code, security-critical system architecture, Go/Rust/Python, debugging across code and networking, operational rigor

Preferred skills

Leading ambiguous technical initiatives, cross-team alignment, building foundational platform capabilities, raising engineering standards

Technologies

Go, Rust, Python, Cloud platforms, Infrastructure-as-code

Responsibilities

Lead architecture and development of identity infrastructure spanning cloud platforms and internal systems; Design systems for authentication, authorization, access governance, and policy enforcement; Build foundational platform capabilities used broadly across engineering and research; Improve reliability, observability, and operational maturity of mission-critical identity systems; Lead high-impact technical initiatives driving alignment across security and engineering teams; Partner with researchers and engineers to build scalable access patterns while maintaining security boundaries

Seniority

Staff+, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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