Principal Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management

📋 Description

• Own the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for authentication and authorization platforms, including API authentication gateways and identity services.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, highly available backend services using Golang, AWS, relational databases, and modern distributed system patterns.
• Lead secure, phased, zero-downtime migrations of authentication traffic and capabilities while ensuring reliability and customer safety.
• Define and implement authentication and authorization standards, including OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, token lifecycle management, service-to-service authentication, and fine-grained access control models.
• Drive consistency and scalability across distributed microservices while maintaining strict performance, reliability, and latency requirements.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to build secure-by-default solutions aligned with industry standards and regulatory expectations.

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with extensive backend development experience in production environments.
• Proven experience designing and operating authentication and authorization systems, including OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML, JWT, session management, RBAC, ABAC, and policy-based authorization.
• Strong background building or managing API gateways, authentication proxies, or large-scale edge services.
• Demonstrated success leading complex service migrations, platform transformations, or large-scale architectural improvements with minimal customer impact.
• Advanced proficiency in Golang and experience building reliable RESTful APIs.
• Strong expertise with SQL databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, including schema design and query optimization at scale.

🎁 Benefits

• Fully remote work environment with the flexibility to work from anywhere in India.
• Principal-level ownership and the opportunity to influence large-scale technical decisions.
• Work on mission-critical identity, security, and platform infrastructure.
• Opportunity to collaborate with talented engineers across a global organization.
• Access to modern engineering practices, AI-assisted development tools, and open-source technologies.
• Growth opportunities through technical leadership, mentorship, and strategic ownership.