Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Security Foundations

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Security Products & Platforms organization. In this role, you'll drive key initiatives, collaborating closely with product and infrastructure teams. We're seeking a technically strong engineer who excels in platform-level thinking, has experience with large-scale systems, and is motivated by the challenges of building highly available, secure services for enterprise customers. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role reporting directly to the Director of Engineering. You have 8+ years of experience in backend development, including leading significant technical initiatives. You've worked on mission-critical systems, ideally in areas like identity, authentication, OAuth, or access control. You write clean, maintainable code in Java and have strong experience with Spring Boot You think in terms of platforms, not just features--you build with extensibility and maintainability in mind. You have experience operating large-scale distributed systems with high uptime and security expectations. You're comfortable mentoring engineers and collaborating across cross-functional teams. You thrive in a well-structured environment and enjoy building scalable solutions in established, mature systems Experience in enterprise security or authentication domains. Familiarity with zero trust models and device posture management. Experience with cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, or Azure. Prior experience working on internal platforms or systems that require high reliability and compliance Lead the development of software components in the authentication and secure access domain, ensuring they are resilient, performant, and secure. Build and own key services end-to-end--from architecture and design to implementation and deployment. Ensure high system availability and performance through observability, alerting and on-call support. Mentor and coach other engineers on the team. Collaborate closely with other engineers, product managers and security teams to define and deliver robust secure device management and access control capabilities over multiple-quarter long initiatives.