Software Engineer, User Auth Experience

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create and implement authentication and authorization systems for users, agents, and services, encompassing credential scoping, SSO, SCIM provisioning, and detailed permission models.

• Advance Render's authorization framework to establish clear permissions and scopes for applications, environments, projects, and other platform resources.

• Take ownership of the security experience throughout the entire stack, from the interfaces used to manage features to the APIs, data models, and underlying systems.

• Develop the controls and audit trails that customers utilize to define, enforce, and comprehend the actions of people, services, and agents within their systems.

• Design shared authentication APIs and primitives, and collaborate closely with Product, Design, Security, and other Render teams to promote their adoption.

• Manage authentication and authorization systems that customers and various teams rely on, ensuring observability, safe rollouts, incident response, and on-call support.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 6 years of experience in shipping and managing production systems.

• Experience in building customer-facing authentication or authorization features, with an understanding of how security decisions influence the product experience.

• Proven ability to design and operate systems where correctness, availability, and safe rollout are critical, and comfort in navigating API, data-model, caching, and migration trade-offs.

• Ability to balance security and product trade-offs, comprehending the reasons behind existing controls, the friction they introduce, and when a simpler design suffices.

• A history of successfully guiding ambiguous projects from design to production while collaborating with product, design, and engineering teams across the organization.

🏝️ Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.

• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newborn, adopted, or fostered child. We will also collaborate with you to create a supportive return plan.

• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.

• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent. FSAs and HSAs are also available.

• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.

• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.

• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.

• Continuous learning benefits and related support.