Senior Identity & Auth Platform Engineer

Alpaca; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Home-office setup

Monthly stipend

Job summary

Alpaca is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer on the Platform Team. You will develop and operate Alpaca’s authentication, authorization, and Identity Provider (IdP) systems - the systems that handle user login, access control, and secure access across our APIs, customer products, and internal tools.

Most of your time will be spent writing Go (backend services, gRPC/REST APIs, shared client libraries), with meaningful work in React/TypeScript for auth-related UI, and occasionally Java for

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience writing code in strongly-typed languages with Go experience.
• Experience building web applications with React and TypeScript.
• Worked with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred).
• Startup experience, ability to thrive in ambiguity and fast-paced environments.
• Ability to own tasks end-to-end from requirements to deployment and monitoring.
• 3+ years working on systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain authentication, authorization, and IdP services across APIs and internal tools.
• Develop and evolve shared libraries and SDKs for internal use.
• Collaborate with teams on identity and access integration and policies.
• Write tests, perform code reviews, and maintain high code quality.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and participate in on-call rotations for identity services.

Skills

Go

React

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Systems at scale

Startup experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Job description

Alpaca is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer on the Platform Team. You will develop and operate Alpaca’s authentication, authorization, and Identity Provider (IdP) systems - the systems that handle user login, access control, and secure access across our APIs, customer products, and internal tools.

Most of your time will be spent writing Go (backend services, gRPC/REST APIs, shared client libraries), with meaningful work in React/TypeScript for auth-related UI, and occasionally Java for