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Job Summary:
DigitalOcean is a cutting-edge technology company focused on simplifying cloud and AI for builders. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Customer Trust & Engineering team, where the main purpose is to architect the next generation of their Identity platform and support AI initiatives.
Responsibilities:
• Architect for Scale: Design and develop high-availability, low-latency authentication and authorization services in Go that scale to handle massive load spikes across global regions.
• Drive Next-Gen Innovation: Build the IAM foundations for emerging cloud-native AI/ML platforms, designing secure token exchange patterns and identity context injection for agentic AI workflows.
• Modernize Identity: Lead the implementation of OIDC and SAML integrations, enabling seamless federated Single Sign-On (SSO) for enterprise customers and strategic global partners.
• Solve Complex AuthZ: Evolve our Policy Engine (using industry standards like Rego/OPA) to support advanced resource-level permissions, dynamic scoping, and network-aware access conditions.
• Evolve Identity Models: Design and scale robust, multi-tenant data models to manage complex hierarchical structures (users, teams, organizations, and resource boundaries) that map to enterprise customer needs.
• Operational Excellence: Take ownership of service reliability, from fine-tuning Kubernetes deployments to migrating legacy data pipelines to modern eventing architectures.
• Security First: Proactively identify and remediate complex security vulnerabilities, ensuring our auth flows are resilient against credential stuffing, session hijacking, and configuration theft.
• Mentor & Lead: Act as a technical lead for major workstreams, conducting deep code reviews and mentoring junior engineers in distributed systems best practices.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years focused on Identity (AuthN/AuthZ), Security Products, or high-scale Distributed Systems.
• Expert-level proficiency in Go and a strong understanding of gRPC microservices architecture.
• Deep knowledge of identity protocols (OIDC, OAuth2, SAML) and access control models (RBAC, ABAC, PBAC).
• Proven ability to build systems that handle consensus, replication, and partitioning at cloud scale.
• Working experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes), SQL (MySQL), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• A track record of 'unwinding' complex legacy logic into clean, maintainable abstractions.
• Ability to communicate technical strategy to senior leadership and collaborate across teams (Inference, Billing, DOKS).
Preferred:
• Experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego.
• Familiarity with Cloud-native deployment strategies (Canary/Blue-Green) via kubernetes.
Company:
DigitalOcean provides a cloud platform to deploy, manage, and scale applications of any size. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in New York, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.