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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management (IAM) - **Company:** Pattern Inc. - **Location:** Lehi, UT, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, User Authentication, Cyber Security, Relational Databases, Fault Tolerance, Identity and Access Management, PostgreSQL, OAuth, OpenID, Role-Based Access Control, Ruby, JSON Web Token, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Software Engineering, System Availability, Technical Debt, Performance Monitor - **Published:** August 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=dbb0063ed1ca3e27 ## About the Role * 3+ years of back-end software engineering experience focused on core security, identity, or platform systems. * Proven experience building and maintaining central Authentication and Authorization systems. * Direct experience with RBAC/ABAC frameworks and security protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT). * Strong capability to manage competing feature requests from multiple internal teams while maintaining legacy codebases. * Solid background with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and REST/gRPC APIs. ## Description As a Sr Software Engineer, you will lead and oversee the software engineering function for Pattern's central administrative, authentication, authorization, and security infrastructure. In this role, you will serve as a key technical leader for our mission-critical identity and access platform, partnering with other engineering leaders and cross-functional teams to ensure its success. Because this core system underpins all of Pattern's operations, you will partner closely with a wide variety of cross-functional teams to field, prioritize, and build a high volume of feature requests while ensuring the ongoing maintenance, stability, and high performance of existing applications., * Maintain, scale, and optimize existing central authentication and authorization applications. * Triage, scope, and build incoming feature requests from cross-functional teams across Pattern. * Write, test, and deploy clean back-end code using Ruby and Go. * Design and enforce fine-grained RBAC across internal platforms and external APIs. * Collaborate with engineers and product stakeholders to integrate core security services. * Automate admin workflows and integrate AI solutions to enhance operational efficiency. * Monitor performance, reduce technical debt, and ensure high system availability., * You strike an effective balance between rapidly delivering requested features for partner teams and systematically maintaining/refactoring existing applications to ensure system stability and reliability while preventing technical debt. * You communicate proactively with cross-functional stakeholders, setting realistic timelines and clear integration pathways for their feature requests. * You ensure our central Auth system is fault-tolerant, sub-millisecond in performance, and seamlessly adopted by all internal applications and external platforms. * You effectively delegate and monitor repeatable, task-focused feature and maintenance work with junior engineers, optimizing your time across both strategy and execution., You will partner with Engineering Leadership and collaborate with engineers across our global organization. The team follows a hybrid work schedule: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday in the office, and work from home on Tuesday and Friday., * Game Changers: A game changer is someone who looks at problems with an open mind and shares new ideas with team members, regularly reassesses existing plans and attaches a realistic timeline to goals, makes profitable, productive, and innovative contributions, and actively pursues improvements to Pattern's processes and outcomes. * Data Fanatics: A data fanatic is someone who recognizes problems and seeks to understand them through data, draws unbiased conclusions based on data that lead to actionable solutions, and continues to track the effects of the solutions using data. * Partner Obsessed: An individual who is partner obsessed clearly explains the status of projects to partners and relies on constructive feedback, actively listens to partner's expectations and delivers results that exceed them, prioritizes the needs of your partners, and takes the time to create a personable experience for those interacting with Pattern. * Team of Doers: Someone who is a part of a team of doers uplifts team members and recognizes their specific contributions, takes initiative to help in any circumstance, actively contributes to supporting improvements, and holds themselves accountable to the team as well as to partners. ## Related Videos - [Keeping applications secure by evolving OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100152-keeping-applications-secure-by-evolving-oauth-2-0-and-openid-connect) - [Coffee with Developers: David Heinemeier Hansson](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/875-coffee-with-developers-david-heinemeier-hansson) - [Delegating the chores of authenticating users to Keycloak](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1558-delegating-the-chores-of-authenticating-users-to-keycloak) - [Get started with securing your cloud-native Java microservices applications](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/123-get-started-with-securing-your-cloud-native-java-microservices-applications) - [Full-stack role-based authorization in 45 minutes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/312-full-stack-role-based-authorization-in-45-minutes) - [Coroutine explained yet again 60 years later](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/690-coroutine-explained-yet-again-60-years-later) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Résumé-Driven Development: How IT trends affect the job market for software developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/59-resume-driven-development-how-it-trends-affect-the-job-market-for-software-developers) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers)