Staff Software Engineer – Authentication

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

📋 Description

• Define the technical direction and architectural strategy for Passport cloud services spanning multiple subsystems and workflows.

• Spearhead intricate, ambiguous initiatives over multiple quarters, from problem identification and design to implementation, rollout, and operational execution.

• Set technical standards and reusable cloud-native patterns across AWS and GCP.

• Evaluate and articulate trade-offs related to reliability, scalability, latency, security, cost, and time-to-market.

• Recognize systemic risks and architectural deficiencies and drive their mitigation.

• Collaborate with software engineering, test engineering, research, and product teams on roadmaps and capabilities.

• Conduct technical reviews and ensure stakeholder alignment on design choices, migration strategies, and ownership delineation.

• Engage in critical-system incident responses and enhance alerting, runbooks, deployment quality, service ownership, and observability.

• Guide engineers through code reviews, providing technical direction and hands-on collaboration.

• Take part in the team's on-call rotation, including responding to after-hours alerts.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of professional software development experience in building backend services and APIs, or equivalent practical experience.

• Proven Staff-level influence in leading significant technical initiatives across various services or domains, delivering measurable results.

• Strong practical experience with Go, Python, or similar programming languages.

• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and development in Linux environments.

• Extensive experience in designing and managing cloud-native systems within AWS or GCP, including services like S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, and IAM.

• Proven track record of ownership over highly available systems, covering deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, and operational enhancements.

• Familiarity with CI/CD practices, Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Experience in defining or influencing technical standards, architecture, or roadmaps across team boundaries.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including documenting decisions and fostering stakeholder alignment.

• Nice-to-have: Experience with Redis, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, authentication, identity management, fraud prevention, security-sensitive environments, observability, large-scale migrations, reliability programs, cost and capacity optimization, internal platforms, developer tooling, reusable engineering patterns, and UI or related product experiences.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including RSUs (Restricted Stock Units) for all employees.

• Remote-first work environment that promotes flexibility and autonomy.

• Regular team on-site meetings, company-wide events, and intentional gatherings.

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO).

• Comprehensive health and welfare plans, including one employer-paid employee-only health plan.

• Generous employer contributions to a best-in-class Health Savings Account (HSA).

• Affordable vision and dental plans for employees and their families.

• Paid Parental Leave for birth, adoptive, and foster parents.

• One year of diaper delivery for the newest family member.

• Monthly allowances for phone and internet expenses.

• Enhanced fertility and GLP-1 benefits.

• Annual Learning & Development stipend for professional advancement, skill enhancement, certifications, and continued education.