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Principal Platform Engineer || Identity Platform (AuthN/AuthZ)

Staines-upon-Thames, England, gb🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-08 → 2026-09-26

Core

Architecting and building a consolidated, multi-tenant identity platform (AuthN/AuthZ) for cloud-native, legacy, and lifecycle cloud environments.

Role type

Principal Platform Engineer (Identity)

Builds

A unified authorization engine (SpiceDB/PostgreSQL) and enterprise authentication infrastructure (Curity/Keycloak) for the company's next-generation platform.

Domain

Enterprise Software, Cloud Infrastructure, Identity & Access Management

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Fine-grained authorization systems (ReBAC/RBAC/ABAC), SpiceDB/OpenFGA/Ory Keto, Curity, Keycloak, Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes (AKS), Kafka/RedPanda, Policy-as-code (OPA/Cedar), OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML 2.0

Preferred skills

Event-driven architecture, GitOps, IaC, JVM tuning, distributed systems debugging

Technologies

SpiceDB, PostgreSQL, Curity, Keycloak, Go, Kafka, RedPanda, Kubernetes, Helm, OPA, Rego, Cedar

Responsibilities

Architect and build the authorization engine and authentication infrastructure; operate identity providers under load; write production code in Go; design authorization schemas and permission models; manage Kubernetes clusters and cloud-native environments.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC

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