Staff Cybersecurity Software Engineer - Authorization Services
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Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent expertise.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, Helm, GitOps, Argo CD, or comparable deployment automation.
- Experience with modern cloud and container technologies such as Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes (K8s), along with infrastructure automation and comparable DevOps practices.
- Experience with Azure services such as managed databases, object storage, Key Vault, Redis, managed identity, or equivalent cloud services.
- Experience with automated testing, continuous integration and delivery pipelines, GitHub Actions or comparable technologies, source control, and production release practices.
- Experience with observability, including structured logging, metrics, tracing, health checks, alerting, and operational dashboards.
- Hands-on experience with IAM, OAuth, OIDC, SpiceDB, Zanzibar.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of authorization frameworks following industry standards and then extending them.
- Architect and build access control systems that use permissions, roles, and attributes to decide who can perform specific actions.
- Define and implement policy-driven and distributed authorization solutions.
- Lead security and authorization reviews across services and drive remediation of issues.
- Design, develop, test, and maintain cloud-native microservices and APIs while setting the technical direction for how services are built, deployed, and operated on public cloud platforms
- Write clean, testable, and secure code in one or more languages such as Go, Java, Python, and JavaScript.
- Author technical guidance, reusable patterns, and guardrails, and roll out these practices across product environments.
- Define and implement observability for services, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
- Design data models and manage data storage using relational and graph databases.
- Support critical production systems and be on call rotation.
- 8+ years of hands-on application development experience, including authentication, authorization, or access control.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent expertise.
- Deep expertise in building and maintaining role-based and attribute-based access control systems for complex use cases.
- Strong programming skills in one or more of the following: Go, Springboot, Python and JavaScript.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, Helm, GitOps, Argo CD, or comparable deployment automation.
- Experience applying AI-assisted software engineering across design, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and continuous improvement
- Advanced problem-solving skills with a focus on security, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to lead design discussions.
- Experience with modern cloud and container technologies such as Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes (K8s), along with infrastructure automation and comparable DevOps practices.
- Experience building secure applications with identity, authentication, authorization, role-based access, secrets, and secure service-to-service communication.
- Experience with Azure services such as managed databases, object storage, Key Vault, Redis, managed identity, or equivalent cloud services.
- Experience with automated testing, continuous integration and delivery pipelines, GitHub Actions or comparable technologies, source control, and production release practices.
- Experience with observability, including structured logging, metrics, tracing, health checks, alerting, and operational dashboards.
- Deep expertise in distributed application development, authorization frameworks, and policy engines.
- Expertise in modeling complex permissions and relationships in graph or relationship-focused data stores.
- Demonstrated expertise in building highly available and scalable custom security frameworks and tooling.
- Hands-on experience with IAM, OAuth, OIDC, SpiceDB, Zanzibar.
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