Founding Backend Engineer - Users Infrastructure (IAM)

What You Will Own

• The Identity Lifecycle: You will own the core services responsible for authenticating every entity—human and machine—within the ecosystem. This includes managing the trade-offs between stateless scalability and real-time session revocation.

• Authorization Strategy: You will be defining how fine-grained permissions are modeled, inherited, and enforced across a massive, multi-tenant hierarchy of organizations and locations.

• The "Paved Road" for Developers: You will own the internal SDKs, gRPC contracts, and middleware that allow over 150+ downstream engineers to integrate security features into their products without needing to be cryptography experts.

• Enterprise Integration Standards: You will manage the infrastructure that bridges our platform with the world, including federated identity (SSO), automated provisioning (SCIM), and secure machine-to-machine (M2M) communication protocols.

• Operational Excellence: Improve system observability (MTTD/MTTR) by integrating monitoring and load-testing protocols into our Tier-1 services.

• Systemic Integrity & Compliance: You are the guardian of the "Source of Truth." You will own the immutability and reliability of our audit logging pipelines and the consistency of identity data.

• India Team Trajectory: As a founding member of the regional hub, you will own the technical bar and operational culture for the India-based arm of the team, ensuring seamless asynchronous collaboration with the US-based team members.

What You Will Need to Accomplish the Job

• Experience: 5+ years of backend engineering with significant time spent building distributed systems in Go.

• Domain Expertise (in any or all of these areas): Deep understanding of AuthN/AuthZ primitives: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, and JWT mechanics.

• System Design: Proven ability to manage complex data migrations, distributed architecture and build gRPC-based microservices.

• Communication: Exceptional written clarity; the ability to write Technical Design Documents (TPDs) that bridge the gap between India and US-based stakeholders.

What Will Make Us Love You

• The "Founding" Spirit: You have previously been an early member of a distributed team and understand how to build culture across time zones.

• Security Mindset: You treat "Zero-Trust" as a default, not a buzzword, and have experience with Zanzibar-style authorization or SpiceDB.

• Reliability Obsession: You don't just ship code; you ship alerts, dashboards, and runbooks (and you have a "stop-and-fix" mentality).

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