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Backend Engineer, Identity
Location
United States
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
$163K - $204K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Backend Engineer, Identity
Tailscale
• Develop the Tailscale product, contributing to both open source client code and related backend services. • Take ownership of the entire product lifecycle, from writing code to product ideation and strategic decision-making. • Work closely with UX/UI designers and product managers to shape features. • Bring a special focus to building features related to identity and access management. • Work as part of a team of engineers to design, build, test, and document core software components. • Develop product features in areas that include our control plane, platform, and identity services. • Develop features that support a broad range of sign-on functionality, such as SSO, OAuth2, SAML, and WebAuthn. • Develop and maintain SCIM style capabilities to synchronize users, groups and other attributes from IdPs. • Exhibit ownership over the running services that comprise Tailscale’s product by building for observability, participating in incident response, and fielding customer support escalations. • Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources. • Bring a security-first mindset to both design and implementation. • Participate in our on-call rotation every x weeks, to triage and mitigate incidents.
Job Requirements
- Familiarity with authentication/authorization protocols, standards and frameworks such as OAuth2, OIDC, SSO, and SAML. Familiarity with SCIM is a plus.
- Experience with distributed systems and building observable, secure, scalable, and resilient services.
- Most of the non-front-end portions of the system are developed in the Go programming language. Experience with Go is a plus.
- Experience with one or more SQL databases.
- Ability to give and process constructive feedback, as well as work independently.
- Flexibility to adjust to the dynamic nature of a startup.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Familiarity with networks (IP addressing, routing, etc.) is a plus.
Benefits
- An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self.
- A competitive total compensation package.
- Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period.
- Remote first company—most of our teams work fully remotely.
- Connect with other Tailscalars IRL.
- Support for your personal and professional development.
- Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration.
- A build-your-own home office setup.
- Generous parental leave program from your first day.
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