Senior/Staff SWE - Identity and Access Management

Recruiting From Scratch•San Francisco, CA

3d•Remote

About The Position

Our client is building an AI-native technology platform designed to help independent restaurants operate and grow their businesses through a unified software platform. The platform replaces fragmented restaurant technology tools with a connected system covering critical business operations, helping restaurant owners manage their businesses more efficiently. The company has processed hundreds of millions of dollars in customer orders and has generated significant savings for restaurant operators by reducing fees and simplifying their technology stack. Backed by top-tier investors and a team of experienced engineers from leading technology companies, the company is scaling rapidly while expanding its product and infrastructure capabilities. As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Identity and Access Management, you'll work on the foundational identity platform responsible for secure access across the company's entire product ecosystem. This is an opportunity to join a high-trust engineering team and own critical authentication, authorization, permissions, and security infrastructure used across the platform.

Requirements

5+ years of professional experience in backend, platform, infrastructure, or security engineering
Hands-on experience building authentication, authorization, identity, or permissions systems
Experience building single sign-on, access management, or authorization services at scale
Experience designing and operating production identity infrastructure
Experience working with distributed systems
Experience building backend services and APIs
Experience working in reputable, talent-dense technology organizations
Demonstrated career progression through increasing scope, responsibility, or promotions
Experience owning critical infrastructure end-to-end
Strong software engineering fundamentals
Experience working closely with platform, infrastructure, and security teams
Strong ownership mentality with demonstrated execution ability
Comfortable operating independently on complex technical systems
Strong interest in identity, authentication, authorization, and security infrastructure
Strong TypeScript or JavaScript engineering experience
Strong backend engineering experience
Hands-on authentication and authorization experience
Experience with identity and access management systems
Experience with SSO and access management
Experience with roles, permissions, and authorization models
Experience with session management and token systems
Experience with service-to-service authentication
Strong distributed systems fundamentals
Experience building scalable backend services and APIs
Experience with Node.js or comparable backend runtimes
Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or comparable databases
Experience working with AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure
Experience with production monitoring and observability tools
Experience designing reliable and secure production systems
Strong understanding of security principles and access controls
Strong debugging and production troubleshooting capabilities
Strong system design and software architecture skills
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field preferred
Strong computer science, distributed systems, security, and software engineering fundamentals
Equivalent practical engineering experience accepted
Exceptional technical ownership
Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
Deep technical curiosity
Strong security mindset
Strong communication skills
Comfortable collaborating with platform, infrastructure, security, product, and engineering teams
High execution velocity
Strong attention to system reliability and security
Strong architectural judgment
Ability to reason from first principles
Comfortable handling complex and ambiguous infrastructure problems
Low-ego collaborative mentality
Strong mentoring and technical leadership ability
Comfortable sharing technical context with other engineers
Strong bias toward operational excellence
Comfortable operating in a high-trust engineering environment
Strong interest in identity and access management
Comfortable working remotely across the United States or Canada

Responsibilities

Design, build, and improve authentication and authorization systems powering the company's product ecosystem
Own critical identity infrastructure across login, sessions, token management, and account security
Build and maintain role-based access control and permission systems
Develop scalable authorization services and access enforcement systems
Build secure service-to-service authentication infrastructure
Design and maintain APIs and infrastructure consumed by product and engineering teams
Improve reliability and observability across authentication and authorization services
Build alerting, dashboards, monitoring, and operational runbooks for critical identity systems
Identify security risks and improve authentication and authorization controls
Design identity systems with security, reliability, and scalability as core requirements
Build distributed systems supporting high-volume authentication and authorization workloads
Collaborate with product, platform, infrastructure, and security engineers
Partner with product and design teams to build secure and intuitive access experiences
Establish engineering standards and best practices around identity and access management
Help product teams implement secure access patterns and authorization standards
Investigate and resolve complex production issues across identity infrastructure
Use AI tools to accelerate software development, code review, exploration, and automation
Contribute to architecture and technical strategy for the identity platform
Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the organization
Participate in interviewing and hiring as the team grows
Operate with high ownership across foundational security and platform systems

Benefits

Competitive Equity Package
Opportunity to own foundational identity and access infrastructure
Significant technical ownership over authentication and authorization systems
Opportunity to work on critical security infrastructure used across the entire product
Direct collaboration with platform, infrastructure, security, product, and engineering teams
Opportunity to shape identity architecture and engineering standards
Exposure to distributed systems, security infrastructure, and large-scale backend systems
Opportunity to mentor engineers and raise technical standards
High-trust engineering environment
Opportunity to influence foundational platform architecture