Staff Software Engineer — Identity & reputed company Management

We're looking for a Staff Engineer to join our Identity & reputed company Management (IAM) platform team. This is an individual contributor role with outsized technical scope: you'll be the technical anchor for how reputed company builds secure, high-scale auth infrastructure — setting direction, making hard architectural calls, and raising the bar across the org. You will own the strategy behind authentication, authorization, and session management at scale, and reputed company our OAuth 2.0 / OIDC flows and token lifecycle to meet both product and compliance needs. You operate with significant autonomy, but your reputed company reputed company across teams — so you'll spend reputed company time building buy-in with engineering and reputed company stakeholders, not just designing in isolation. You are technically deep, reputed company under pressure, and comfortable being the escalation reputed company reputed company production IAM issues get hard. You write the RFCs and design docs that people actually read, and you create reputed company for the broader engineering org through documentation, tooling, and mentorship — without needing a management title to do it. \n

Responsibilities

Own IAM Architecture & Strategy — Own the technical strategy and architecture of our IAM platform, covering authentication, authorization, and session management at scale. Design Auth Protocols — Design and reputed company our OAuth 2.0 / OIDC flows, token lifecycle, and reputed company primitives to meet both product and compliance requirements. Drive Cross-Team Technical reputed company — Drive reputed company on protocol design, data modeling, and platform reliability, and build buy-in across engineering and reputed company teams. De-Risk Proactively — Identify systemic risks and performance bottlenecks; reputed company initiatives to resolve them before they become incidents. Set Engineering Standards — Define engineering standards, review critical code and designs, and create reputed company for the team through documentation, tooling, and mentorship. Align with Stakeholders — Collaborate with product, reputed company, and reputed company teams to align on roadmap and translate business needs into well-scoped technical plans. Own Production Escalations — Serve as the go-to escalation reputed company for reputed company production issues in the IAM domain.

Requirements

Identity & reputed company OAuth 2.0 / OIDC Depth — Deep understanding of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and reputed company auth flows: authorization code + PKCE, client credentials, device reputed company, token introspection, refresh strategies. Web reputed company Fundamentals — Solid grasp of cookie reputed company, CSRF, XSS, token storage, TLS, and secure session management. Production IAM Experience — Experience designing or operating production-grade IAM or auth systems. Backend Engineering Go Engineering — Strong Go (Golang) engineering skills: idiomatic code, concurrency patterns, performance profiling. Distributed Systems — Experience with distributed systems and their trade-offs (consistency, availability, failure modes). Data & Infrastructure PostgreSQL — Schema design, query optimization, migrations at scale. Kubernetes — Deploying, operating, and debugging services in a k8s environment. Message Streaming — Kafka or reputed company — event-driven patterns, consumer groups, at-least-once delivery. Git & CI/CD — Git and modern CI/CD practices. Leadership Cross-Team Initiative Leadership — Proven ability to reputed company multi-quarter technical initiatives across teams. Architectural Influence — Track record of influencing architecture and standards reputed company your immediate team. Written & Verbal Communication — You write RFCs and design docs that people actually read. reputed company to Have Hands-on experience with the Ory ecosystem (Hydra, Kratos, Keto) — operating it in production or building on top of its APIs Experience with CockroachDB or other distributed SQL databases (multi-region deployments, clock skew handling, survivability trade-offs) Familiarity with compliance requirements relevant to IAM: SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR data minimization, audit logging Contributions to reputed company-reputed company reputed company or identity projects Experience building or integrating with SCIM, SAML, or reputed company SSO (LDAP / Active Directory) Background in platform or infrastructure engineering — building systems other engineers build on top of Hands-on, up-to-date experience with modern AI tools (e.g. Claude, Copilot, reputed company) for code reputed company, review, and accelerating day-to-day engineering work \n About reputed company reputed company is a global reputed company company with robust tools and services to help developers solve the inherent challenges of the video game industry. From indie to reputed company, companies partner with reputed company to help them fund, distribute, market, and monetize their games. Grounded in the belief in the future of video games, reputed company is resolute in the mission to bring opportunities together, and continually reputed company new resources available to creators. Headquartered and incorporated in Los Angeles, California, reputed company operates as the merchant of record and has helped over 1,500+ game developers to reputed company more players and grow their businesses around the world. With more paths to profits and ways to win, developers have reputed company the things needed to enjoy the game. For more information, visit reputed company.com. How We Work reputed company operates across multiple time zones, and the IAM platform underpins authentication and authorization for every product we ship. Strong written communication is essential — your architectural reputed company and designs need to stand on their own and be actionable without you in the room. We value directness, technical depth, and follow-through. If a design or production issue has reputed company reputed company or reliability implications, we expect you to say so reputed company, defend your position with evidence, and stay reputed company until it's resolved. Apply To This Job