Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management

Ridgeline•Reno, NV

1d•$182,500 - $251,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Staff Software Engineer on Ridgeline’s Users & Entitlements team, you will be a core contributor to the design and delivery of authentication and authorization services that power our entire platform. These services play a critical role in our Security First culture by ensuring users are verified, authorized, and properly provisioned across the Ridgeline ecosystem. You’ll collaborate closely with Platform, Product, and Security engineering teams to solve high-impact challenges using modern technologies, including AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT. At Ridgeline, how we work matters as much as what we build. Ridgeliners act like owners, choose growth over comfort, and communicate with transparency. We assume positive intent, bias toward action, and bring solutions—not just problems. We celebrate wins, learn from setbacks, and thrive in a resilient, collaborative, high-performing culture. If the Ridgeline Way excites you, we’d love to meet you.

Requirements

8+ years in a software engineering position with a history of architecting and designing new products and technologies
2+ years experience engineering focusing on Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Experience using Auth0 and Single Sign On (SSO) for authentication
History of architecting, designing, and delivering security-first enterprise applications in the cloud using agile development methodologies
Experience managing large and distributed code bases at scale
Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming such as Java, Kotlin, or Python
Strong experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
Experience with critical infrastructure services including monitoring, alerting, and logging
Experience using issue tracking tools such as JIRA
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and architectural patterns
A degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or a related discipline
Ability to focus on short-term deliverables while maintaining a big-picture perspective
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Serious interest in having fun at work

Nice To Haves

Experience with AI-assisted development workflows, including tools such as Claude, Cursor, Copilot, or similar.
Understanding of building back-end infrastructure using AWS, with specific focus on RDS and Lambda
Experience with messaging frameworks such as Kafka
Working knowledge in JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS
Familiarity with cloud based multi-region application architectures
Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest, Pytest, and Cypress
Experience developing mission-critical enterprise software applications

Responsibilities

Provide technical expertise for user authentication and authorization, performance, scalability, and security
Use AI tools thoughtfully throughout the SDLC to accelerate research, prototyping, implementation, testing, documentation, and review, while ensuring outputs are accurate, secure, maintainable, and production-ready.
Design, build, and test solutions that integrate with Auth0 and Single Sign On Identity Providers to handle authentication
Handle On-Call rotations for production support of the authentication and authorization services
Be involved in the entire software development process, including requirements and design, implementation, code reviews, automation, and testing through end product delivery
Impact a developing tech stack based on modern serverless frameworks and cost-efficient utilization of AWS back-end services
Coach, mentor, and inspire teams of product engineers that are responsible for delivering high performing, secure enterprise applications
Proactively collaborate across Platform, Product, and Security teams as well as cross-functionally to establish partnerships and champion innovation