Senior Identity Platform Engineer (Go/Rust) - Remote

Lorien; Orange (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Lorien has an exciting opportunity for an Identity Software Engineer to join our Defense Technology client on a direct hire basis. In this role, you'll build critical security and authorization infrastructure that protects the systems behind advanced defense technology products.

The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of software engineering experience and thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys autonomy, owning work end-to-end.

Qualifications

• Proficient in a systems-level language such as Go or Rust.
• Hands-on experience provisioning infrastructure via code (Terraform, CDK, or similar).
• Working knowledge of identity standards and providers (OAuth, SAML, SCIM, OIDC, Okta, Azure AD).
• History of shipping clean, well-structured code that scales.
• Capable of driving technical direction including architecture discussions.
• Experience with CI/CD deployment on modern cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a company-wide identity platform from the ground up, from initial solutioning through hands-on implementation, protecting the infrastructure behind the company's defense technology products, working within the broader Security Engineering team
• Bridge identity across a patchwork of providers, cloud environments, and internal tooling so the company operates on one coherent identity model
• Reduce manual identity work by automating the full lifecycle, from onboarding through access recertification to offboarding
• Turn the company's identity and access policies into working software that teams can actually build on top of
• Partner closely with peer identity engineers and cross-functional teams, shipping in small, fast iterations that match the org's pace of moving quickly rather than on multi-year timelines

Skills

Go

Rust

CI/CD

OAuth/SAML/OIDC

Terraform

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Job description

Lorien has an exciting opportunity for an Identity Software Engineer to join our Defense Technology client on a direct hire basis. In this role, you'll build critical security and authorization infrastructure that protects the systems behind advanced defense technology products.

The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of software engineering experience and thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys autonomy, owning work end-to-end.