Principal Software Engineer

Job Summary

To define and drive the multi-year technical roadmap for Identity & Access Management and Key Management Services, the full-time remote Principal Software Engineer will architect high-availability services, lead cross-team initiatives, and establish engineering standards in a fast-paced environment.

Key responsibilities

• Own the platform vision for IAM and KMS, including authentication, authorization, and cryptographic key lifecycle management
• Architect and design scalable identity and key management services in Go, ensuring low-latency and high availability
• Mentor and develop engineers while driving cross-team collaboration to resolve architectural challenges

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, SCIM) and access control models (RBAC, ABAC, PBAC)
• Hands-on experience designing key management infrastructure, including envelope encryption and HSM integration
• Proven ability to build reliable distributed systems that handle consensus, replication, and partitioning at scale