Lead Software Engine - (Priv Controls)

Overview

Lead Software Engineer for Bitwarden’s Priv Controls team, designing and building a next-generation privileged access platform and related gateway, terminal access, and auditing/enforcement services.

What you'll do

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and operate secure gateway controls and audited terminal login and session recording mechanics.
• Maintain strict service boundaries and design resilient APIs for a decoupled PAM tenant.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to design and validate solutions before implementation.
• Build and maintain automated test suites, integration harnesses, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Own production operational health, performance, and reliability telemetry, including on-call rotations and postmortem analyses.
• Create and maintain architecture specifications, API contracts, and external open-source documentation.

What you'll need

• 10–15 years as a software engineer with team lead experience.
• Strong proficiency in AI-led development in C#/.NET, Rust, or TypeScript.
• Experience designing or implementing secure gateway architectures, reverse proxies, and session proxying (SSH, RDP, or HTTPS).
• Understanding of Identity and Access Management, key-rotation protocols, and real-time audit logging systems.
• Experience with containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes), automated test frameworks, and SRE/observability tools.
• Familiarity with zero-trust and zero-knowledge architectures, encryption standards, and threat modeling.

Details

• All-remote team; role expects the candidate to be located in the U.S.
• ATS location line provided: Delhi.