Software Engineer – Platform Services
Irvine, CA - USA
Job Summary
Software Engineer Platform Services
Become a Key Player as a Software Engineer Platform Services
You will own and extend the foundational identity and authorization systems that enable multiple product teams to authenticate users enforce access and integrate reliably across a multi-tenant SaaS platform. You will work as an individual contributor on a small high-output Platform Foundation team collaborating with product teams and other engineers in a fully Remote model. Your work directly affects platform reliability developer experience and downstream product velocity.
Heres How Youll Make an Impact on the Team
- Build and extend platform services that manage federated identity authentication flows and authorization enforcement across multiple products
- Implement integrations with the centralized identity platform: token handling session management user provisioning and tenant configuration
- Design and implement backend service integrations (REST APIs event-driven messaging webhooks) in Python with multi-tenant scenarios in mind
- Produce tooling documentation and examples to make integrations repeatable and self-service for product teams
- Use AI-assisted development tools daily for code generation design validation test scaffolding and investigation; contribute to AI harnesses and evaluation pipelines
- Instrument services for observability (structured logging metrics alerting) and participate in on-call rotations and incident resolution
- Participate in API design reviews code reviews and mentor junior engineers; contribute to runbooks and onboarding materials
Heres What Youll Need to Be Successful in This Role
- 35 years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated ability to own and deliver production features
- Hands-on experience building backend services or Python including RESTful API development
- Demonstrated experience implementing or integrating with federated identity standards (OAuth 2.0 OIDC SAML 2.0 JWT)
- Practical understanding of authorization frameworks and token/session lifecycle considerations
- Familiarity with multi-tenant SaaS integration patterns and tenant-scoped configuration
- Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and standard tooling: Git CI/CD Docker automated testing
- Active use of AI-assisted development tools as part of your daily workflow
- Bachelors degree in CS Software Engineering or equivalent experience (or equivalent demonstrated experience)
Heres What Else Might Help You Out
- Prior experience with a commercial or open-source identity platform or enterprise SSO solution in an engineering capacity
- Experience modeling and implementing fine-grained authorization (RBAC ABAC policy-based access control)
- Experience in regulated environments (financial services/fintech) or exposure to SOC 2 from an engineering perspective
- Experience contributing to AI harnesses evaluation pipelines or tooling that improves engineering throughput
Pay Range
$130K to $163K/year
Ready to Make Your Mark
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