Sprout Social-posted 5 days ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Remote • Chicago, IL
1,001-5,000 employees

Sprout Social is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer to join our Identity and Access Management teams. Why join Sprout’s Engineering team? With collaborative cross-functional teams that span mobile, front-end, back-end and site reliability engineering—the Sprout Engineering team is a place to sharpen your craft and solve hard problems with the smartest people in the industry. On a daily basis, we process tens of billions of requests and tens of billions of asynchronous events. We also ingest billions of social messages every day, and ship more than 1,000 production deployments every month. You’ll get to work on a “tech-giant” scale with smaller, supportive teams where every engineer has the chance to make an impact on our company, and our customers. The best part? In our industry, you often have to switch jobs or even companies to learn a new part of a tech stack or business. But at Sprout, our product is a suite, so you just need to move teams. You’re able to diversify your skills, which not only benefits your team—but also your career. What you’ll do Our Identity and Access Management (IAM) engineering teams design and build elegant platform capabilities that power multi-tenant experiences across our entire product suite. IAM is central to Sprout’s technical strategy. It enables major R&D investments, including our integration ecosystem and AI agent actions via Sprout’s MCP servers. Beyond these strategic unlocks, IAM ensures Sprout’s customers can manage user access in fast-moving environments that evolve at the pace of social. Our work amplifies the impact of every Engineering team, and we’re looking for leaders who can elevate others while diving deep into complex technical challenges to deliver solutions that are simple, intuitive, and built to scale. Own the technical execution of our IAM vision. You will be the lead designer and builder for new, scalable access control solutions that will be used by all of Sprout's Product teams. Architect and build our next-generation, multi-tenant authorization control plane, designed to manage access across a variety of products, types of principals, and jobs-to-be-done. Scale our authorization data plane to scale to billions of requests daily while remaining intuitive and approachable to engineers across the organization. Be the engineer accountable for service-level outcomes. You will write the code and set the standards that ensure our core access services are highly available, low-latency, and secure. Design and ship the platform-level IAM patterns, libraries, and tools that will multiply the effectiveness of our entire R&D organization. What you’ll bring We are looking for a Staff Engineer who leads through craft. Your primary motivation is delivering customer outcomes by solving hard technical problems with simple solutions, and you're not afraid to be hands-on to get it done. You're a pragmatic leader who mentors others through your code and design, and you're driven to build high-quality, high-scale platforms that make every engineer around you better. If you thrive on technical ownership and want to build the systems that secure a platform at our scale, we want to talk to you!

  • Own the technical execution of our IAM vision.
  • You will be the lead designer and builder for new, scalable access control solutions that will be used by all of Sprout's Product teams.
  • Architect and build our next-generation, multi-tenant authorization control plane, designed to manage access across a variety of products, types of principals, and jobs-to-be-done.
  • Scale our authorization data plane to scale to billions of requests daily while remaining intuitive and approachable to engineers across the organization.
  • Be the engineer accountable for service-level outcomes.
  • You will write the code and set the standards that ensure our core access services are highly available, low-latency, and secure.
  • Design and ship the platform-level IAM patterns, libraries, and tools that will multiply the effectiveness of our entire R&D organization.
  • 10+ years experience developing and supporting software in a production environment
  • 5+ years experience programming in an object oriented language such as Java, Python, C# or C++
  • 3+ years experience leading engineering projects and initiatives, including the design, development, and implementation of distributed systems, ensuring delivery of reliable services, prioritizing technical improvements with cross-functional teams, and/or driving technical vision.
  • 5+ years experience developing and supporting high throughput, scalable, distributed, and resilient authorization solutions
  • Experience working with proven IAM standards, such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, RBAC, and JWTs
  • Experience with emerging standards and technologies, including code generation and the MCP standard
  • Experience working with cloud computing technologies such as AWS or GCP
  • Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
  • Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program
  • High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
  • Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
  • Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program and employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
  • Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
  • Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting
  • Whenever possible, Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them.
  • Sprout maintains a remote workforce in many places in the United States.
  • However, we are not set up in all states, so please look at the drop-down box in our application to see whether your state is listed.
  • Individual base pay is based on various factors, including work location, relevant experience and skills, the responsibility of the role, and job duties/requirements.
  • Every Sprout team member has an opportunity to receive restricted stock units (RSUs) under Sprout’s equity plan.
  • Employees (and their dependents) are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life, accidental death, and dismemberment insurance, and Modern Health (a wellness benefit).
  • Employees are able to enroll in Sprout’s company’s 401k plan, in which Sprout will match 50% of your contributions up to 6% with a maximum contribution.
  • Sprout offers “Flexible Paid Time Off” and ten paid holidays.
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