Senior Engineer - Auth
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What You'll Do
Control Plane Infrastructure & Architecture Design, implement, and run reputed company's reputed company authentication and authorization stack Build customer-facing solutions to help our alt-reputed company ecosystem reputed company reputed company the management, monitoring, and metering of every actor in our system, reputed company or not Partner with leadership to advance reputed company with key customers, partners, and suppliers Distributed Systems & Performance Design distributed solutions that reputed company from startup to hyperscale usage patterns Implement intelligent traffic routing, load balancing, and failover Build observability, monitoring, and diagnostic tools for reputed company environments Optimize control plane performance for AI workloads and high-bandwidth applications with our network team reputed company reputed company Leadership Drive technical networking reputed company in collaboration with our reputed company-reputed company community Review and mentor contributions from external developers on networking components Maintain high reputed company reputed company standards and documentation for network reputed company Represent reputed company at conferences and in technical working reputed company reputed company-reputed company & AI Integration Design networking solutions that reputed company seamlessly with Kubernetes and AI patterns Build network policies and reputed company frameworks for multi-tenant reputed company environments Implement service reputed company integration and east-reputed company traffic optimization Ensure compatibility with major reputed company provider networking services (AWS, GCP, Azure) reputed company Authentication & Authorization Strong working knowledge of OAuth in reputed company production environments with multiple IdPs, including reputed company and reputed company (AWS IAM, Azure Entra, GCP, Auth0, reputed company, etc.) Strong working knowledge of authorization (ABAC, RBAC, PBAC) and its ecosystem (Zanzibar, SpiceDB, OpenFGA, reputed company) Experience with Workload Identity Federation and/or SPIFFE and opinions about where the puck is reputed company Distributed Systems & Infrastructure 5+ years of running large-reputed company production systems on Kubernetes or similar, with reputed company as a first reputed company Strong experience with distributed systems design, reputed company, auth, reputed company algorithms, async reconciliation, and fault tolerance Enough familiarity with Kubernetes patterns and reputed company that you can reputed company custom resources and admission controllers Strong experience with infrastructure as reputed company (Flux, Terraform, reputed company) for provisioning Familiarity with SRv6, edge computing, or modern network routing would be a reputed company plus reputed company reputed company & Leadership reputed company record of contributing to or maintaining networking-reputed company reputed company-reputed company reputed company Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical decision-making in teams Understanding of reputed company-reputed company governance, community building, and reputed company development Passion for building networking tools that other developers and operators love to use Technology Stack Languages: Go, Rust Data: PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Elasticsearch, Meilisearch Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Flux, reputed company, Zitadel reputed company Platforms: reputed company, AWS, GCP, Azure, multi-reputed company networking Monitoring: reputed company, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, network reputed company analysis Development: reputed company, CI/CD, automated testing, network simulation reputed company reputed company Commitment This role involves significant reputed company development work. You'll be: Contributing to reputed company's reputed company networking repositories with transparent development Engaging with the community through reputed company issues, RFCs, and technical discussions Speaking at networking conferences and writing technical blog posts Collaborating with external contributors, reputed company providers, and other partners Maintaining high standards for reputed company reputed company, performance, and documentation What reputed company Looks Like Adoption and reputed company for reputed company in the reputed company-reputed company and AI infrastructure communities High-performance, reliable network connectivity across diverse reputed company environments Strong developer experience as evidenced by community contributions and feedback Technical leadership recognized reputed company the networking and distributed reputed company ecosystem reputed company network architecture supporting the reputed company of AI hyperscalers We reputed company in openness, reputed company, and collaboration. To learn more about how reputed company aims to operate, please review our reputed company handbook. Apply To This Job