Senior Staff Engineer - Identity & Trust Platform (Remote)

Earnin; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 239,000 - 341,000; Full time

Job summary

EarnIn is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to define and evolve the Identity & Trust platform for secure onboarding across its expanding ecosystem. You will shape multi-year strategy, lead architecture across teams, and establish patterns to enable safe, fast customer experiences.

Expect guidance on AI-assisted engineering and strong guardrails for security and privacy. The role emphasizes leadership across engineering, product, security, risk, and compliance, with a focus on scalable,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with Staff/Senior Staff level leadership.
• Proven track record defining and executing technical strategy for large-scale distributed systems or platform infrastructure.
• Deep hands-on experience designing secure, highly available backend systems at scale.
• Strong expertise across identity, trust, security, privacy, or regulated-data systems.
• Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, RBAC/ABAC, MFA, identity federation, and token management.

Responsibilities

• Set Platform Strategy & Architecture for Identity & Trust: roadmap & patterns.
• Lead high-impact technical initiatives spanning multiple services and teams.
• Build secure, resilient infrastructure with microservices, event-driven designs, and secure data handling.
• Evolve identity capabilities like KYC, PII tokenization, secure file processing, deduplication.
• Create reusable architecture patterns, APIs, and platform primitives for safe consumption.
• Drive operational excellence: reliability, observability, SLOs, incident response.
• Advance AI-powered engineering with guardrails and responsible adoption.
• Mentor staff engineers and align architecture across teams.

Skills

Software architecture leadership

Distributed systems design

OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect / SAML

Kubernetes / Kafka / DynamoDB / MySQL

AI-assisted engineering workflows

Security & privacy in regulated data

REST API design

Tools

Okta / Auth0 / Keycloak

Java / Go / Python / JavaScript

Job description

EarnIn is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to define and evolve the Identity & Trust platform for secure onboarding across its expanding ecosystem. You will shape multi-year strategy, lead architecture across teams, and establish patterns to enable safe, fast customer experiences.

Expect guidance on AI-assisted engineering and strong guardrails for security and privacy. The role emphasizes leadership across engineering, product, security, risk, and compliance, with a focus on scalable,