Senior Software Engineer – Identity and Security, Profiling Services

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

• 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.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, 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 standards such as 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.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in building and operating identity and authorization systems, with a strong focus on security, reliability, and incident response. Proficient in implementing standards such as OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect while ensuring operational resilience and effective collaboration across teams.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Identity And Authorization Systems
• Secure Platform Engineering
• OAuth 2.0
• OpenID Connect
• Containerized Services Automation

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Identity Systems
• Authorization Systems
• Security Engineering
• Production Reliability
• Threat Modeling
• Distributed Systems
• Maintainable Code
• Production Diagnostics
• Credential Handling
• Service Trust

Soft Skills

• Collaboration
• Problem Solving
• Communication

Certifications & Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science
• MS in Information Security

Industry Keywords

• Cloud Application
• Security Controls
• Operational Resilience
• Incident Response
• Resource Management

Tools & Technologies

• Containerization
• Automation Tools