Senior Authentication Cloud Platform Engineer

pindropsecurity; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Pindrop is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape the cloud-based passport services. You will lead multi-quarter initiatives, set standards for cloud-native systems, and drive reliability, security, and scale across AWS and GCP.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, test, and research teams to align roadmaps, mentor engineers, and own incidents from detection to resolution at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience building backend services and APIs.
• Staff-level impact across multiple services or domains with measurable outcomes.
• Strong hands-on Go or Python experience and solid knowledge of data structures and concurrency.
• Deep experience designing cloud-native systems in AWS or GCP including S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, IAM.
• Proven ownership of highly available systems, including deployment, monitoring, incident response, and CI/CD with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience defining or influencing technical standards, architecture, or roadmaps.
• Strong written and verbal communication to align stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the technical strategy and architectural direction for Passport's cloud services, spanning multiple subsystems and workflows.
• Lead high-impact, ambiguous initiatives from problem framing and design through implementation, rollout, and operational follow-through, using Go and Python.
• Set technical standards and reusable patterns for cloud-native services across AWS and GCP, including services such as Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3, with a focus on reliability, scale, and secure production operation.
• Make and communicate consequential tradeoffs involving reliability, scalability, latency, security, cost, and time to market.
• Anticipate systemic risks, identify architectural gaps, and drive mitigation before they affect customers, delivery velocity, or operational stability.
• Partner with software engineering, test engineering, research, product teams to align roadmaps and deliver new capabilities.
• Lead technical reviews and facilitate alignment on complex design decisions, migration strategies, and ownership boundaries.
• Participate in incident response for critical systems, translating operational learnings into durable improvements in alerting, runbooks, deployment quality, and service ownership.
• Raise the effectiveness of engineers through mentorship, code reviews, and hands-on collaboration.
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation and help cover after-hours alerts as needed.

Skills

Go

Python

Cloud-native design

AWS / GCP

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Staff-level leadership

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Pindrop is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape the cloud-based passport services. You will lead multi-quarter initiatives, set standards for cloud-native systems, and drive reliability, security, and scale across AWS and GCP.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, test, and research teams to align roadmaps, mentor engineers, and own incidents from detection to resolution at scale.