Senior Backend Auth & Identity Engineer

Clear Fracture; Vienna (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth and development opportunities

Work-life balance

Dynamic team environment

Job summary

Clear Fracture, based in Vienna, Virginia, is searching for a Senior Software Engineer focused on designing and implementing authorization and identity systems within their platform. Candidates should have over four years of experience in backend software engineering with a deep understanding of authorization models and secure system design. This role requires collaboration with other engineers and the ability to solve complex security issues in production code. Clear Fracture emphasizes employee growth and work-life balance.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in authorization, identity, or authentication systems.
• Comfortable working in a collaborative engineering environment.
• Familiarity with threat modeling and secure system design.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement fine-grained authorization systems within the product.
• Write production-level backend code for authorization enforcement.
• Implement authentication flows and integrate with identity providers.
• Design tenant-aware access control across application services.

Skills

Backend software engineering experience (Python, Go, Java)

RBAC, ABAC, policy-based access control models

OAuth2, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML

Designing APIs

Implementing authentication flows

Experience with distributed systems

Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Strong communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Clear Fracture, based in Vienna, Virginia, is searching for a Senior Software Engineer focused on designing and implementing authorization and identity systems within their platform. Candidates should have over four years of experience in backend software engineering with a deep understanding of authorization models and secure system design. This role requires collaboration with other engineers and the ability to solve complex security issues in production code. Clear Fracture emphasizes employee growth and work-life balance.