Principal Engineer (Golang)

Job Description

Starboard Recruitment, on behalf of our client, is searching for an experienced Principal Engineer. Our client is a top-tier, venture-backed, Series-B, US-based tech startup with a team of experts in the Identity and Access Management space (IAM). Successful candidates will be highly experienced with Golang and ideally have a background within the security space. Read below for further details.

The Role

This is technical leadership and a hands-on-keyboard role where you are responsible for tackling big problems, driving technical approaches, and writing software to implement your great ideas. Your key responsibilities include:

• Regularly seeing features through from idea to fruition – including architecture and design, planning and scheduling, testing, development, and continuous integration and deployment.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform.
• Collaborate with peer organizations, DevSecOps, and directly with customers to solve their most challenging identity problems.

Your Skills:

• Expert-level developer (10+ years of professional software development experience) - ideally experienced with or interested to learn Golang, Python, React.
• Microservices architecture with emphasis on high-availability and high-performance.
• SaaS/PaaS/IaaS and cloud development technologies such as AWS, Google Cloud, Docker, Cloud Distribution.
• “Identity” space experience such as OAuth, SAML, OIDC, or LDAP is strongly preferred.
• Security mindset - ideally experienced with identity, encryption, logs, compliance.

You’ll bring experience in:

• Architecting and developing features, end-to-end on several projects.
• Being a technical lead for a team of engineers.

Geographic location

• Ideally the candidate will be based in the Vancouver BC area.
• The company has a distributed development team, so for the right candidate, we can support remote work in North America.

Our techniques and practices:

• Test-Driven Development.
• Practical Agile software practices.
• Working in a distributed/remote team.