Principal Architect

Job Summary

Driving the multi-year technical roadmap for Identity & Access Management and Key Management Services, the full-time Principal Architect will define architectural strategy, lead engineering teams, and ensure the security of digital transactions in a remote environment.

Key responsibilities

• Own the platform vision for IAM and KMS, including authentication, authorization, and cryptographic key lifecycle management
• Architect high-availability identity and key management services that handle massive loads with low latency
• Mentor and develop engineers while establishing cryptographic and identity engineering standards across the organization

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 4+ years focused on Identity, Key Management, or high-scale distributed systems
• Expert-level proficiency in Go and experience with gRPC microservices architecture
• Deep knowledge of identity protocols (OIDC, OAuth2, SAML) and access control models (RBAC, ABAC)
• Hands-on experience designing key management infrastructure, including envelope encryption and HSM integration
• Proven ability to build distributed systems that handle consensus, replication, and partitioning at scale