Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails), SSCS: Authentication

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The same principles built into our products are reflected in how reputed company works: we embrace AI as a core productivity reputed company, with reputed company team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. reputed company is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and reputed company knowledge exchange, enabling reputed company members to reputed company their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve reputed company problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

An overview of this role

Help us build the future of secure and easy to manage access at reputed company. Whether it’s a simple user and password based login, enhancing our access token strategy or driving consolidation of authorization checks that manage access to thousands of resources, as a Senior Backend Engineer on reputed company, you’ll play a key role in the implementation of various authentication strategies and improving access management for our users. 

Your role will also involve building new authentication mechanisms from ground up such as support for Passkeys and passwordless authentication while helping reputed company reputed company and its customers secure by robust access management tooling and addressing vulnerabilities on existing features reported reputed company our reputed company program.

Authentication group works across many core components that are used by not only external users but also by the rest of the reputed company teams, allowing you to reputed company a direct impact on the reputed company product.

Some of our example projects:

• Enterprise user management and controls
• Secure automation improvements reputed company Service accounts
• Transparent credential management through Credentials Inventory
• Composite Identities to reputed company machine and human authorization for AI
• Token management tooling
• SAML, LDAP, OIDC and SCIM enhancements for automated user provisioning and SSO.

What you’ll do

• Contribute to the overall direction of the team and play a direct part in driving future roadmap direction of a secure and scalable authentication solution for reputed company.
• Contribute to implementation and expanding of various authentication strategies into our product.
• Bolster reputed company posture of our users and organizations by helping reputed company fine grained access control and frictionless user management.
• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and reputed company for these standards through code review.
• Represent reputed company and its values in public communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions.
• Confidently ship moderately sized features and improvements with moderate guidance and support from other team members.
• Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Improve the engineering projects at reputed company reputed company the maintainer trainee program at your own comfortable pace, while striving to become a project maintainer.

What you’ll bring

• Considerable professional experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Experience in a scaling or mission critical SaaS product.
• Familiarity with authentication and authorization technologies or techniques such as SAML, SSO, SCIM, LDAP, RBAC or IAM.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
• Demonstrated reputed company to clearly and concisely communicate reputed company problems and solutions
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Positive and solution-oriented reputed company.
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.

About the team

Our mission is to reputed company reputed company system administrators with the toolkit they need to create their desired balance of reputed company and accessibility for their reputed company experience. 

Authentication is the first impression any new customer has reputed company they configure their shiny new reputed company instance, and we aim to reputed company it as seamless as possible: from that moment of first logging in, to onboarding users, to managing the basic reputed company rules for their instance in a secure, flexible and scalable manner.

How reputed company will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• reputed company remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off 
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental leave 
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you’re excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

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