Software Engineer - CIAM

CircleCI; London; Remote; GBP 73,000 - 91,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Software Engineer for CIAM to design and build features for user identity management. This fully remote role involves collaborating with a global team and contributing to critical services for their product. Ideal candidates will have experience in Go and distributed systems, and a passion for improving user experiences.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years as a professional developer.
• Familiarity with observability tools like Honeycomb, Datadog.

Responsibilities

• Design and build new features and simplify existing services.
• Support, maintain, and debug production microservices.

Skills

Go

Observability

Critical Thinking

Tools

Kubernetes

TypeScript

Clojure

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Software Engineer - Customer Identity & Access Management

About

CircleCI seeks a Software Engineer passionate about maintaining and crafting the future of services that power the heart of our product. You’ll work across a deep slice of our system on features and capabilities ranging from:

• User identity management.
• User and group access management.
• Login and browser session management.
• API authentication and authorization.
• Secure credentials management.
  
  

You’ll collaborate daily with dedicated colleagues across the world. This is a full-time, fully remote role that requires you to participate in our on-call support rotation as well as incident management.

About The CIAM Team

The CIAM team, embedded within the Foundations division, is responsible for the user identity experience from sign-up, through to access management. We power the authentication/authorization of all CircleCI APIs, including rate-limiting. We are engaging in exciting projects like Single Sign-On (SSO), and more advanced fine-grained authorization.

About Foundations

The Foundations division is the very heart of CircleCI; its teams build, own, and operate the collection of services that fully realize customer builds, from a trigger into a status out and everything in between. Teams within the Foundations division work on capabilities like user access and management, pipeline processing, orchestration, job execution, and focus heavily on reliability, security, and performance.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build new features, simplify existing services, automate and scale our systems as we continue to rapidly grow and evolve.
• Write sustainable, testable, high-quality, high-performance code.
• Support, maintain, and debug production microservices in a highly complex distributed system.
• Champion a culture of observability and monitoring by using operational data to help your team improve the stability and performance of our systems.
• Partner with members of a cross-functional team and other partners to set the direction of our platform and product: learn about our business problems, explore solutions, weigh design tradeoffs, and prioritize them to deliver maximum value in a sustainable, incremental fashion.
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• Proficiency in Go: Professional experience not required, but you should be comfortable writing Go code without heavy reliance on documentation. Personal projects or self-study are great; we don’t expect deep expertise, just solid fundamentals and the ability to work independently in the language.
• 3-5 years as a full time professional developer with experience building reliable, zero-downtime, observable distributed systems.
• The utmost care in regards to how your code runs in production. You have familiarity with observability tools like Honeycomb, Datadog, Graylog, and Rollbar, and understand how to use that information to address a problem.
• Interest in improving the lives of our customers and the team, and can use just enough code with a keen eye on constraining complexity. We use Go primarily, but you'll also encounter TypeScript, and Clojure - all deployed into Kubernetes and as agents on our compute fleet.
• Ability to learn and think critically about both system design and software engineering concepts and blend those perspectives pragmatically based on project needs.
• Ability to quickly adapt when priorities change and making conscious tradeoffs with incomplete information.
• Bonus: Experience with identity management systems, OAuth, OIDC, JWTs and/or React with Next.js.
  
  

We’re Particularly Interested In These Work Styles

• Working transparently and collaboratively within a distributed team.
• Favor toward regular, incremental delivery over precision.
• Striving for continuous learning and improvement for yourself and your team.
• Passionate about ensuring that all of our systems—software and human—scale smoothly.
  
  

We Look Forward to Hearing from You

We encourage you to apply even if your experience and skill set do not exactly match the role’s requirements. Our team highly values a growth mindset–if you’re open and willing to learn then we’d love to work with you!

United Kingdom Base Pay Range

£73,000—£90,500 GBP

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About CircleCI

CircleCI is the world’s largest continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, and the hub where code moves from idea to delivery. As one of the most-used DevOps tools - processing more than 3 million jobs a day - CircleCI has unique access to data on how the most effective engineering teams work, and the tools to help software companies successfully leverage the power of AI into their commercial applications. Companies like Hinge, HuggingFace, and Samsung use us to improve engineering team productivity, release better products, and get to market faster.

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a global, remote workforce, CircleCI is venture-backed by Base10, Greenspring Associates, Eleven Prime, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, Baseline Ventures, Threshold

Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Owl Rock Capital, Next Equity Partners, Heavybit, and Harrison Metal Capital.

CircleCI is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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