Senior Backend Engineer – Authorization Platform Lead (Go/K8s)

ACTalent; Beaverton (OR); In loco; USD 96.000 - 110.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Descrizione del lavoro

Actalent in Portland, OR is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own an authorization model as part of a Go microservices stack running on Kubernetes. This on-site role aims to create a scalable permission system that maps users, groups, resources, and relations across teams and customer deployments.

You will write and support backend services, review code, and guide the permanent team to own the design after handoff.

Competenze

• 6+ years building backend microservices and APIs in production.
• Hands-on design of authorization and permission models.
• Experience with OpenFGA or Zanzibar-style authorization.
• Strong SQL and relational database fundamentals.
• Kubernetes and Linux daily work, shell scripting.

Mansioni

• Take ownership of the platform's permission model with multiple teams.
• Design fine-grained access using users, groups, resources and relations.
• Integrate the model into Go microservices and front APIs.
• Plan zero-downtime cutover for current customers.
• Develop and support backend services, including event-driven work.
• Document design, review code, and onboard the permanent team.

Conoscenze

Backend microservices

Go

Authorization design

SQL

Linux scripting

Agentic AI tools

Strumenti

OpenFGA

Zanzibar-style authorization

Kubernetes

Kafka/NATS/RabbitMQ

Okta/SCIM/SSO

Descrizione del lavoro

Actalent in Portland, OR is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own an authorization model as part of a Go microservices stack running on Kubernetes. This on-site role aims to create a scalable permission system that maps users, groups, resources, and relations across teams and customer deployments.

You will write and support backend services, review code, and guide the permanent team to own the design after handoff.