Remote IAM Backend Lead for Global Platform

Weave; Lehi (UT); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Weave is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to architect and scale the Identity and Access Management layer. You will lead authentication services for all entities and drive authorization across a large, multi-tenant customer base, leveraging Go, SpiceDB, and gRPC-based microservices.

You will own the internal SDKs, contracts, and middleware enabling many teams to integrate security features without cryptography expertise.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with distributed systems in Go.
• Deep understanding of AuthN/AuthZ primitives: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, and JWT mechanics.
• System design experience: distributed architectures and gRPC-based microservices.
• Excellent written communication for Technical Design Documents bridging multiple time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own the core Identity Lifecycle services for authenticating entities across the ecosystem.
• Define and enforce authorization strategies across multi-tenant organizations and locations.
• Develop internal SDKs, gRPC contracts, and middleware for 150+ downstream engineers.
• Improve observability and operational excellence of Tier-1 services.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Tools

gRPC

OAuth 2.0

OIDC

JWT

SAML

Job description

Weave is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to architect and scale the Identity and Access Management layer. You will lead authentication services for all entities and drive authorization across a large, multi-tenant customer base, leveraging Go, SpiceDB, and gRPC-based microservices.

You will own the internal SDKs, contracts, and middleware enabling many teams to integrate security features without cryptography expertise.