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# Senior/Staff SWE - Identity and Access Management

- **Company:** Recruiting from Scratch
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $210,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, User Authentication, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Cyber Security, Databases, Computer Engineering, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Identity and Access Management, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Node.Js, Software Architecture, Role-Based Access Control, Session Management, Single Sign-On, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Grafana, Reliability of Systems, Backend, Information Technology, Data Management
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-staff-swe-identity-and-access-management-san-francisco-ca--d9cf680e-78e3-48fc-98e4-ed576f1b30ee

## About the Role

Identity Data Management, Software Engineering, Identity Data Management, Restaurant, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Growth, Business Operations, Technical Leadership, * 5+ years of professional experience in backend, platform, infrastructure, or security engineering

 * Hands-on experience building authentication, authorization, identity, or permissions systems
 * Experience building single sign-on, access management, or authorization services at scale
 * Experience designing and operating production identity infrastructure
 * Experience working with distributed systems
 * Experience building backend services and APIs
 * Experience working in reputable, talent-dense technology organizations
 * Demonstrated career progression through increasing scope, responsibility, or promotions
 * Experience owning critical infrastructure end-to-end
 * Strong software engineering fundamentals
 * Experience working closely with platform, infrastructure, and security teams
 * Strong ownership mentality with demonstrated execution ability
 * Comfortable operating independently on complex technical systems
 * Strong interest in identity, authentication, authorization, and security infrastructure

Technical Requirements

 * Strong TypeScript or JavaScript engineering experience
 * Strong backend engineering experience
 * Hands-on authentication and authorization experience
 * Experience with identity and access management systems
 * Experience with SSO and access management
 * Experience with roles, permissions, and authorization models
 * Experience with session management and token systems
 * Experience with service-to-service authentication
 * Strong distributed systems fundamentals
 * Experience building scalable backend services and APIs
 * Experience with Node.js or comparable backend runtimes
 * Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or comparable databases
 * Experience working with AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure
 * Experience with production monitoring and observability tools
 * Experience designing reliable and secure production systems
 * Strong understanding of security principles and access controls
 * Strong debugging and production troubleshooting capabilities
 * Strong system design and software architecture skills, * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field preferred
 * Strong computer science, distributed systems, security, and software engineering fundamentals
 * Equivalent practical engineering experience accepted

Soft Skills

 * Exceptional technical ownership
 * Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
 * Deep technical curiosity
 * Strong security mindset
 * Strong communication skills
 * Comfortable collaborating with platform, infrastructure, security, product, and engineering teams
 * High execution velocity
 * Strong attention to system reliability and security
 * Strong architectural judgment
 * Ability to reason from first principles
 * Comfortable handling complex and ambiguous infrastructure problems
 * Low-ego collaborative mentality
 * Strong mentoring and technical leadership ability
 * Comfortable sharing technical context with other engineers
 * Strong bias toward operational excellence
 * Comfortable operating in a high-trust engineering environment
 * Strong interest in identity and access management
 * Comfortable working remotely across the United States or Canada

## Description

* Design, build, and improve authentication and authorization systems powering the company's product ecosystem
 * Own critical identity infrastructure across login, sessions, token management, and account security
 * Build and maintain role-based access control and permission systems
 * Develop scalable authorization services and access enforcement systems
 * Build secure service-to-service authentication infrastructure
 * Design and maintain APIs and infrastructure consumed by product and engineering teams
 * Improve reliability and observability across authentication and authorization services
 * Build alerting, dashboards, monitoring, and operational runbooks for critical identity systems
 * Identify security risks and improve authentication and authorization controls
 * Design identity systems with security, reliability, and scalability as core requirements
 * Build distributed systems supporting high-volume authentication and authorization workloads
 * Collaborate with product, platform, infrastructure, and security engineers
 * Partner with product and design teams to build secure and intuitive access experiences
 * Establish engineering standards and best practices around identity and access management
 * Help product teams implement secure access patterns and authorization standards
 * Investigate and resolve complex production issues across identity infrastructure
 * Use AI tools to accelerate software development, code review, exploration, and automation
 * Contribute to architecture and technical strategy for the identity platform
 * Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the organization
 * Participate in interviewing and hiring as the team grows
 * Operate with high ownership across foundational security and platform systems