Job description

Overview

Principal Backend Engineer on the Onboarding and Lifecycle Management Platform team, building and operating scalable services for importing, syncing, and provisioning identities and access policies.

What you'll do

Lead backend architecture, implementation, and operational maintenance for scalable, reliable, performant, and secure services.
Drive technical initiatives across backend platform workstreams with product, architecture, and engineering teams.
Design and build high-throughput, low-latency REST and gRPC APIs.
Build asynchronous messaging pipelines and backend infrastructure for identity lifecycle management.
Partner with product development, QA, and SRE teams to scope, test, and deploy services at scale.
Improve testing, observability, monitoring, and operational readiness.
Mentor Senior and Staff engineers on technical growth and ownership.

What you'll need

12+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong backend focus.
Expertise in Java and modern backend frameworks such as Spring Boot and Hibernate.
Experience designing, building, and operating scalable backend services and microservices in cloud environments.
Experience with caching, stream processing, and resilient architectures.
Experience with relational databases and high-scale data modeling.
Understanding of asynchronous messaging systems and distributed caching.
B.S. or B.E. in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

Knowledge of IAM protocols and standards such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, and SCIM.
Experience with threat modeling, security engineering, and secure API design.
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

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