Senior Java Engineer - Cloud Platform (Hybrid, Denver Metro Area)
About The Position
FusionAuth is a fast-growing startup and leading provider of customer identity and access management (CIAM) software headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Our mission is to make authentication and authorization simple and secure for every developer. Our product helps businesses securely manage customer identities and access, ensuring a seamless and safe user experience for some of the largest brands in the world. We are committed to delivering exceptional value and satisfaction to our clients through top-notch service and support. With a great team and strong investors, we are expanding our team to help accelerate our growth and take FusionAuth to the next level. We are recruiting a Senior Software Engineer who will join our engineering team to help us achieve these goals. This exciting role will allow you to build new features and extend and influence our existing product offering. While you'll be expected to contribute in all areas of the product, this role will have a strong emphasis on working on the FusionAuth cloud platform. For this role, you must be a creative and quantitative thinker. You should be interested in the authentication, authorization and user management space. You should be seasoned at writing secure and high-performance code. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter, fast worker and excited about growing a company from the ground up. This position reports to the Head of our Platform Engineering Team.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software development experience
- 6+ years of experience with a heavy ops or platform engineering component
- Highly proficient in the Java programming language and object-oriented design and implementation
- Deep, hands-on experience with AWS
- Strong platform engineering experience in a Linux environment
- Experience architecting, building, and managing complex application topologies on Kubernetes
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, particularly Terraform
- Experience with designing and building high-availability, highly-performant applications
- Comfortable using AI tools in your development workflow
- Located in the Denver metropolitan area with the ability to come into our Westminster office 2-3 times per week
Nice To Haves
- Experience up and down the entire stack, including cloud infrastructure, operating systems, databases, back-end and front-end services
- Experience with Golang development
- Real working knowledge of relational databases — you understand query optimization, indexing strategies, and database design beyond ORM abstractions
- Passion for security in general, and auth specifically
- Quick learner with the ability to rapidly master new technologies and skills
- Influential communicator: holds strong opinions but adapts flexibly to new information or team input
- Appreciates first principles thinking, but understands when it's time to stop theorizing and start building
- Adaptable to challenges common in a startup with ~60 employees and thrives in a dynamic startup vibe
Responsibilities
- Writing high-quality, performant, and secure Java code
- Connect unfamiliar technical concepts to your existing knowledge base and find pragmatic paths forward
- Balance immediate deliverables with long-term architectural thinking and planning
- Writing extensive and thorough tests
- Extending our cloud offering with security, scalability, and control plane features
- Helping to maintain and extend the FusionAuth Terraform provider
- Supporting other engineers with your cloud and platform expertise
- Writing clear, high-quality documentation for new features
- Participating in the on-call engineer rotation, solving critical customer issues should they arise. While not the norm, we do have some off-hours support requirements.
- Provide technical support to our customers
- Be a voice of positive change in the Engineering organization
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision coverage, with the company covering the majority of your medical premiums to keep your costs low
- Fully employer-paid High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) option paired with a Health Savings Account (HSA), including employer contributions
- Basic life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage fully paid by the company for essential financial protection
- Voluntary life insurance options to provide additional financial protection for you and your loved ones
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) to save pre-tax dollars on eligible expenses
- 401(k) plan with company match to help you save for retirement
- Generous paid time off (PTO) plus paid company holidays to support work-life balance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offering confidential counseling and support services
- Professional growth and development opportunities to boost your career journey
- Eligibility for performance-based bonuses or variable compensation tied to individual, team, or company results
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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