Senior Identity & Security Platform Engineer

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior security and platform engineer to design and operate identity and authorization systems in a cloud-based environment. You will implement trusted sign-in, credential handling, and service authorization while collaborating with product teams to ensure reliability and security.

With 5+ years in production security and platform engineering, you will drive MVPs, automate containerized services, and improve incident response and resilience across services and data stores.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or MS in Information Security or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience building and operating production identity, security, platform, infrastructure, or reliability systems.
• Deep expertise in identity and authorization systems or secure platform engineering and production reliability.
• Practical experience implementing trusted sign-in, browser and service credentials, and resource authorization using OAuth 2.0 or OpenID Connect.
• Working knowledge of securely configuring, deploying, and operating containerized services through automation.
• Strong software engineering ability in at least one service or automation language, including maintainable code, tests, and production diagnostics.
• Sound threat-modeling and distributed-systems judgment demonstrated through service trust, isolation, partial failure, credential handling, or abuse-resistance decisions.
• A record of defining a bounded MVP under ambiguity, collaborating across organizational boundaries, and turning architecture into an operated production capability.

Responsibilities

• Design and build identity, authorization, and service-trust capabilities for a collaborative cloud application.
• Translate security and access requirements into controls that are practical for users and product teams.
• Strengthen credential handling, auditing, isolation, and protection of sensitive performance data.
• Build secure, reproducible infrastructure and delivery practices for supported environments.
• Improve release safety, recovery, and operational resilience for services and persistent data.
• Establish useful security and reliability signals for incident response, resource management, and ongoing improvement.
• Partner with engineering and security teams to identify risks, validate controls, and address failures before release.

Skills

Identity Systems

Authorization Systems

Security Engineering

Production Reliability

Threat Modeling

Distributed Systems

Maintainable Code

Production Diagnostics

Credential Handling

Service Trust

Education

BS in Computer Science

MS in Information Security

Tools

Containerization

Automation Tools

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a senior security and platform engineer to design and operate identity and authorization systems in a cloud-based environment. You will implement trusted sign-in, credential handling, and service authorization while collaborating with product teams to ensure reliability and security.

With 5+ years in production security and platform engineering, you will drive MVPs, automate containerized services, and improve incident response and resilience across services and data stores.