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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Deepl
- **Location:** UK (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** OpenID, Redis, Session Management, Software Engineering
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-identity-deepl-com-8788695

## About the Role

* Production grade backend engineering at Staff level, with a track record of owning systems across team boundaries.
 * A strong record of driving initiatives from design through implementation, deployment, and operation.
 * Genuine willingness to get hands on and to jump into operational and incident work.
 * Experience building and operating reliable, high throughput services, balancing delivery with keeping systems running.
 * Solid software engineering and architecture principles that you can spread across a team through mentoring.
 * Comfort operating in a fast moving, still maturing organisation, with the resilience to work through ambiguity.
 * Clear communication and the ability to influence technical direction without authority.
 * Depth in identity and access platforms such as SSO, OIDC, SCIM, and session management, and familiarity with modern cloud native infrastructure such as EKS, Aurora, and Redis, are a plus rather than a requirement.

## Description

* Raise the engineering bar across the team through design review, mentoring, and pragmatic technical standards, enabling everyone around you to deliver at a higher level.
 * Own the delivery of identity services end to end, from design through implementation, deployment, and ongoing operation.
 * Step into urgent customer and operational incidents, helping the team diagnose and resolve them quickly and then prevent them from happening again.
 * Balance feature delivery with the reliability and availability of critical infrastructure that runs at high request volumes.
 * Set technical direction and make principled architectural trade-offs on reliability, availability, consistency, and security across the identity domain.
 * Help move the identity platform from startup grade to solid, scalable infrastructure over time.
 * Shape the longer term identity roadmap, including the evolution of SSO, SCIM, and OIDC on modern cloud infrastructure.
 * Leading analysis of complex or ambiguous needs. Framing solutions in business terms. Coordinates alignment across stakeholders and ensures delivery addresses the real problem.


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