Staff Software Engineer

Job Summary

Driving the architecture and delivery of a new permission service, the full-time remote Staff Software Engineer will design and build a system that securely controls user access across the platform while defining authentication and authorization standards for product teams.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and implementation of a greenfield permission service, including data models and enforcement APIs
• Define authentication and authorization standards that product teams rely on for secure access control
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate access control requirements into scalable permission primitives

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years at the Staff or Principal level
• Deep expertise in identity and access management protocols and authorization models
• Proven experience designing and building authentication and authorization systems at scale
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals, particularly in PHP and modern architectural patterns
• Experience with OpenAPI specifications and service-oriented or microservice environments