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Senior Software Engineer – Control Plane
Location
United States
Posted
134 days ago
Salary
$150K - $195K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer – Control Plane
AuthZed
• Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs that power AuthZed Cloud’s control plane. • Build and operate Kubernetes-native systems, including custom operators and controllers, to manage customer environments and infrastructure lifecycle. • Design durable, idempotent workflows for provisioning, configuration changes, scaling, and deletion. • Implement and integrate authentication and identity flows (e.g., SSO, SAML, OAuth/OIDC) in a secure, multi-tenant SaaS environment. • Implement and evolve usage-based billing systems. • Engineer distributed systems that behave correctly under partial failure, retries, concurrency, and long-running operations. • Collaborate closely with frontend engineers to design APIs and workflows that result in clear, reliable user experiences. • Ensure services are observable and operable through structured logging, metrics, and alerts. • Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues involving orchestration, authentication, or state management. • Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to incident resolution and post-incident improvements. • Document APIs, workflows, system behavior, and operational guidelines.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent education, experience, and training in Computer Science or a related field.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in cloud computing (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and kubernetes
- Experience with distributed systems and cloud native technologies such as kubernetes
- Strong Kubernetes experience, including designing or operating controllers/operators.
- Experience implementing or integrating authentication systems (e.g., SSO, SAML, OAuth/OIDC).
- Experience working with relational databases and transactional data models.
- Ownership mindset, self-direction, and a passion for solving complex problems
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills: proven ability to build alignment across teams
Benefits
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Stock options at an early-stage startup
- Comprehensive benefits including healthcare (US-based) and other insurance
- A full remote and flexible schedule to accommodate different timezones
- Twice-yearly travel for team offsites focused on team bonding, collaboration, and having fun!
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