Senior IAM Software Engineer: High-Impact Auth & Security

Pattern; Lehi (UT); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Paid Holidays

Onsite Fitness Center

Company Paid Life Insurance

Casual Dress Code

Competitive Pay

Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance

401(k) match

Job summary

Pattern is seeking a Sr Software Engineer (IAM) to lead and oversee its central authentication, authorization, and security infrastructure. You will partner with engineering leaders and cross-functional teams to prioritize feature requests while ensuring high performance and reliability of core systems.

Role emphasizes maintaining and extending the central Auth/Authz stack, RBAC enforcement, and collaboration with multiple teams to deliver secure solutions with scalable operations.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of back-end software engineering experience focused on core security, identity, or platform systems.
• Proven experience building and maintaining central Authentication and Authorization systems.
• Direct experience with RBAC/ABAC frameworks and security protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT).
• Strong capability to manage competing feature requests from multiple internal teams while maintaining legacy codebases.
• Solid background with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and REST/gRPC APIs.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, scale, and optimize existing central authentication and authorization applications.
• Triage, scope, and build incoming feature requests from cross-functional teams across Pattern.
• Write, test, and deploy clean back-end code using Ruby and Go.
• Design and enforce fine-grained RBAC across internal platforms and external APIs.
• Collaborate with engineers and product stakeholders to integrate core security services.
• Automate admin workflows and integrate AI solutions to enhance operational efficiency.
• Monitor performance, reduce technical debt, and ensure high system availability.

Skills

Back-end engineering

RBAC/ABAC

OAuth/OIDC/SAML/JWT

PostgreSQL

REST/gRPC

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Ruby

Go

Job description

Pattern is seeking a Sr Software Engineer (IAM) to lead and oversee its central authentication, authorization, and security infrastructure. You will partner with engineering leaders and cross-functional teams to prioritize feature requests while ensuring high performance and reliability of core systems.

Role emphasizes maintaining and extending the central Auth/Authz stack, RBAC enforcement, and collaboration with multiple teams to deliver secure solutions with scalable operations.