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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** NATIVE AI LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Applications Architecture, Audit Trail, Digital Signature, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, PostgreSQL, OAuth, OpenID, JSON Web Token, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Backend, Low Latency, Cloudflare
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/23_20B7E52C8F214A8F5FE9CC21AAC04099

## About the Role

Take ownership of technically complex systems from architecture through production deployment and ongoing operation.
Requirements Strong software engineering background with experience building production-grade backend systems.
Experience working on systems where security or cryptographic correctness is critical, such as identity providers, authentication systems, token issuers, signing services, credential systems, WebAuthn/passkeys, or similar infrastructure.
Strong proficiency in Python or Go, with the ability and willingness to work across both.
Deep understanding of authentication, identity and authorization concepts, particularly OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT/JWS, digital signatures, credentials, and key management.
Comfortable reading technical specifications and RFCs and translating them into production systems.
Experience designing APIs and distributed backend services where reliability, latency, security, and observability matter.
Production experience with PostgreSQL and asynchronous application architectures.
Strong understanding of the differences between identity, permissions, credentials, claims, and authorization.
Comfortable operating in an early-stage environment with significant ownership and relatively little existing precedent.
Bonus: Experience with verifiable credentials, decentralized identity, SD-JWT, OID4VC, or W3C credential standards.
Bonus: Experience with append-only or cryptographically verifiable audit logs.
Bonus: Experience building KYC/KYB, fraud, risk, or identity verification infrastructure.
Bonus: Experience with edge infrastructure, CDNs, mTLS, Envoy, Cloudflare Workers, or other low-latency verification environments.
Bonus: Exposure to emerging agentic payments, machine-to-machine commerce, or AI identity protocols.