Senior Software Engineer - Identity Security Posture Management

Jobtailor; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Bengaluru, India seeks a seasoned technologist to lead the ISPM technical roadmap and design scalable, multi-tenant systems. You will architect identity security posture, drive cross-functional partnerships, and own the on-call and SLO management.

You will build high-performance Go backends with event-driven patterns, craft React/TypeScript frontends, and mentor a small distributed team across India and Singapore, delivering quarterly milestones with PMs and EMs.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience, including leadership roles
• Proven track record of mentoring engineers and elevating technical standards
• Architectural experience with scalable, multi-tenant, event-driven distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar high-throughput streaming technologies
• Production-level Go backend development, with testing and robust error handling
• Frontend development with React and TypeScript, end-to-end features
• Strong SQL/PostgreSQL data modeling for multi-tenant workloads
• Excellent communication, ability to present trade-offs and documents clearly
• Comfort with ambiguity and quick, partial-data decision-making

Responsibilities

• Direct the ISPM technical roadmap and translate requirements into system designs
• Architect and scale core identity security posture systems
• Drive cross-functional alliances with platform teams across security and identity stack
• Create and review technical design documents and lead design reviews
• Promote engineering best practices across the team (testing, API design, observability)
• Build and scale backend services in Go (event-driven, REST/gRPC, cron jobs)
• Develop user-facing interfaces in React/TypeScript for policy dashboards and identity workflows
• Model and optimize multi-tenant database schemas for large-scale workloads
• Implement event-driven architectures using Kafka for asynchronous workflows
• Maintain reliability via runbooks, feature flags, and monitoring setups
• Mentor a distributed team of 3-4 engineers across India and Singapore
• Collaborate with PMs and EM to align on tech strategy and roadmaps
• Own on-call, incident response, and SLO management
• Represent the team in org alignment and client interactions

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

System architecture

Event-driven design

Kafka

Go backend

React/TypeScript frontend

SQL/PostgreSQL

Communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

Go

React

TypeScript

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Job description

Responsibilities

• Direct the ISPM technical roadmap by converting product requirements into robust system designs, mapping out implementation phases, and making strategic build-vs-extend decisions.
• Architect, design, and scale core identity security posture systems.
• Cultivate and drive cross-functional technical alliances with platform teams across the security and identity stack.
• Author, review, and evaluate technical design documents while facilitating architectural discussions and design reviews.
• Establish, promote, and uphold engineering best practices across the sub-team, focusing on testing, code quality, API design, and observability.
• Construct and scale high-performance backend services using Go—including event-driven systems, REST/gRPC APIs, cron jobs, and integration layers.
• Build and maintain user-facing interfaces using React/TypeScript—focusing on policy dashboards, identity visualization, and mitigation workflows.
• Design, model, and optimize database schemas capable of handling large-scale multi-tenant identity workloads.
• Implement event-driven architectures using Kafka as a message queue to manage asynchronous workflows and ensure continuous evaluation of identity postures.
• Maintain operational reliability and service health through standard runbooks, feature flags, and robust monitoring setups.
• Support, mentor, and guide a distributed team of 3‑4 engineers located across India and Singapore.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and EM to align on technical strategy, prioritize roadmaps, and deliver quarterly key results and milestones.
• Own operational health for all services—on‑call rotation, incident response, and SLO management.
• Serve as the team representative during organizational alignment, review sessions, and client interactions.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software development experience, including at least 2+ years in a tech lead or senior technical leadership role
• Proven track record of mentoring engineers and elevating the overall technical standards of the team
• Exceptional system architecture skills—experienced in designing and running scalable, multi‑tenant, event‑driven distributed systems at scale
• Deep hands‑on experience with Kafka or similar high‑throughput event‑streaming technologies
• Extensive backend production experience with Go—writing idiomatic services with clean design patterns, thorough testing, and robust error handling
• Production‑level React and TypeScript skills, with the capability to drive and own user‑facing features end‑to‑end
• Strong proficiency in SQL and PostgreSQL—including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling for multi‑tenant workloads
• Superb communication abilities—expert at detailing technical trade‑offs to PMs, presenting architecture to leadership, and writing comprehensive design documents
• High tolerance for ambiguity—adept at making decisions with partial data and iterating quickly.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in system architecture and backend development, particularly with Go, Kafka, React, and TypeScript. Proven ability to mentor teams, drive technical standards, and manage operational health in complex, multi‑tenant environments.