CareerPlan

Engineer III, Cloud - Authentication & Authorization (Hybrid)

USA - Sunnyvale, CAFull-time$120k–$185k2026-11-03 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Build and extend cloud-based authentication and authorization services for internal service-to-service and external user login, processing over 1 trillion decisions per day.

Role type

Senior backend engineer (distributed systems, authN/authZ)

Builds

High-scale authentication and authorization platform services

Domain

Cybersecurity, Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Go (Golang), distributed systems design, API and systems design, multi-threading and concurrency, sharding and horizontal scaling, OAuth, AWS, Kafka, gRPC, Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch

Preferred skills

Open source contributions, SAML, SSO, OIDC, JWT, SpiceDB/OpenFGA/Zanzibar, GCP, cybersecurity domain experience

Technologies

Go, AWS, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Redis, Postgres, gRPC, OAuth, SAML, OIDC, JWT, SpiceDB, OpenFGA, Zanzibar, GCP

Responsibilities

Lead backend engineering from prototypes to large-scale applications, build cloud systems for threat intelligence automation, collaborate across product groups, mentor developers, improve architecture and performance, utilize AI technologies to enhance workflows

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC