Senior Staff Software Engineer - Identity & Cloud Infra

Cloudjobs

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Cloudjobs in San Francisco is seeking a senior architect to lead the identity infrastructure across cloud platforms and internal systems. You will design scalable authentication, authorization, and access governance while ensuring data protection for model weights and customer information.

You will drive reliability and operational maturity, set technical direction for IAM, and guide teams through ambiguous challenges using IaC, observability, and secure design practices.

Qualifications

  • Requires 10+ years of experience building large-scale infrastructure.
  • Deep expertise in identity systems and cloud control planes.
  • Proficiency in Go, Rust, or Python.
  • Strong track record leading complex technical initiatives in ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

  • Lead architecture and operation of identity infrastructure across cloud platforms and internal systems.
  • Design scalable authentication, authorization, and access governance.
  • Improve operational maturity, reliability, and security posture.
  • Guide adoption of infrastructure as code and observability practices.

Skills

Identity And Access Management
Cloud Infrastructure
Distributed Systems
Infrastructure As Code
Python
Go
Rust
Authentication
Authorization
Access Governance
Policy Enforcement
System Design
Operational Rigor
Security Engineering
Observability
Backend Engineering

Job description

Cloudjobs in San Francisco is seeking a senior architect to lead the identity infrastructure across cloud platforms and internal systems. You will design scalable authentication, authorization, and access governance while ensuring data protection for model weights and customer information.

You will drive reliability and operational maturity, set technical direction for IAM, and guide teams through ambiguous challenges using IaC, observability, and secure design practices.

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