Sr Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Pattern; Lehi (UT); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Paid Holidays

Onsite Fitness Center

Company Paid Life Insurance

Casual Dress Code

Competitive Pay

Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance

401(k) match

Job summary

Pattern is seeking a Sr Software Engineer (IAM) to lead and oversee its central authentication, authorization, and security infrastructure. You will partner with engineering leaders and cross-functional teams to prioritize feature requests while ensuring high performance and reliability of core systems.

Role emphasizes maintaining and extending the central Auth/Authz stack, RBAC enforcement, and collaboration with multiple teams to deliver secure solutions with scalable operations.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of back-end software engineering experience focused on core security, identity, or platform systems.
• Proven experience building and maintaining central Authentication and Authorization systems.
• Direct experience with RBAC/ABAC frameworks and security protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT).
• Strong capability to manage competing feature requests from multiple internal teams while maintaining legacy codebases.
• Solid background with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and REST/gRPC APIs.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, scale, and optimize existing central authentication and authorization applications.
• Triage, scope, and build incoming feature requests from cross-functional teams across Pattern.
• Write, test, and deploy clean back-end code using Ruby and Go.
• Design and enforce fine-grained RBAC across internal platforms and external APIs.
• Collaborate with engineers and product stakeholders to integrate core security services.
• Automate admin workflows and integrate AI solutions to enhance operational efficiency.
• Monitor performance, reduce technical debt, and ensure high system availability.

Skills

Back-end engineering

RBAC/ABAC

OAuth/OIDC/SAML/JWT

PostgreSQL

REST/gRPC

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Ruby

Go

Job description

Are you obsessed with data, partner success, taking action, and changing the game? If you have a whole lot of hustle and a touch of nerd, come work with Pattern! We want you to use your skills to push one of the fastest-growing companies headquartered in the US to the top of the list.

Pattern accelerates brands on global ecommerce marketplaces leveraging proprietary technology and AI. Utilizing more than 66 trillion data points, sophisticated machine learning and AI models, Pattern optimizes and automates all levers of ecommerce growth for global brands, including advertising, content management, logistics and fulfillment, pricing, forecasting and customer service. Hundreds of global brands depend on Pattern’s ecommerce acceleration platform every day to drive profitable revenue growth across 60+ global marketplaces—including Amazon, Walmart.com, Target.com, eBay, Tmall, TikTok Shop, JD, and Mercado Libre. To learn more, visit pattern.com or email [e-mail].

Pattern has been named one of the fastest growing tech companies headquartered in North America by Deloitte and one of best-led companies by Inc. We place employee experience at the center of our business model and have been recognized as one of Newsweek’s Global Most Loved Workplaces®.

Role Summary

As a Sr Software Engineer, you will lead and oversee the software engineering function for Pattern’s central administrative, authentication, authorization, and security infrastructure. In this role, you will serve as a key technical leader for our mission-critical identity and access platform, partnering with other engineering leaders and cross-functional teams to ensure its success. Because this core system underpins all of Pattern's operations, you will partner closely with a wide variety of cross-functional teams to field, prioritize, and build a high volume of feature requests while ensuring the ongoing maintenance, stability, and high performance of existing applications.

What is a day in the life of a Sr Software Engineer (IAM)?

• Maintain, scale, and optimize existing central authentication and authorization applications.

• Triage, scope, and build incoming feature requests from cross-functional teams across Pattern.

• Write, test, and deploy clean back-end code using Ruby and Go.

• Design and enforce fine-grained RBAC across internal platforms and external APIs.

• Collaborate with engineers and product stakeholders to integrate core security services.

• Automate admin workflows and integrate AI solutions to enhance operational efficiency.

• Monitor performance, reduce technical debt, and ensure high system availability.

What will I need to thrive in this role?

• 3+ years of back-end software engineering experience focused on core security, identity, or platform systems.

• Proven experience building and maintaining central Authentication and Authorization systems.

• Direct experience with RBAC/ABAC frameworks and security protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT).

• Strong capability to manage competing feature requests from multiple internal teams while maintaining legacy codebases.

• Solid background with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and REST/gRPC APIs.

What does high performance look like?

• You are seen and trusted as a primary subject matter expert and partner for central Auth/Authz and admin tooling across all of Pattern.

• You strike an effective balance between rapidly delivering requested features for partner teams and systematically maintaining/refactoring existing applications to ensure system stability and reliability while preventing technical debt.

• You communicate proactively with cross-functional stakeholders, setting realistic timelines and clear integration pathways for their feature requests.

• You ensure our central Auth system is fault-tolerant, sub-millisecond in performance, and seamlessly adopted by all internal applications and external platforms.

• You effectively delegate and monitor repeatable, task-focused feature and maintenance work with junior engineers, optimizing your time across both strategy and execution.

What is the team like?

You will partner with Engineering Leadership and collaborate with engineers across our global organization. The team follows a hybrid work schedule: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday in the office, and work from home on Tuesday and Friday.

Sounds great! What’s the company culture?

• Game Changers: A game changer is someone who looks at problems with an open mind and shares new ideas with team members, regularly reassesses existing plans and attaches a realistic timeline to goals, makes profitable, productive, and innovative contributions, and actively pursues improvements to Pattern’s processes and outcomes.

• Data Fanatics: A data fanatic is someone who recognizes problems and seeks to understand them through data, draws unbiased conclusions based on data that lead to actionable solutions, and continues to track the effects of the solutions using data.

• Partner Obsessed: An individual who is partner obsessed clearly explains the status of projects to partners and relies on constructive feedback, actively listens to partner’s expectations and delivers results that exceed them, prioritizes the needs of your partners, and takes the time to create a personable experience for those interacting with Pattern.

• Team of Doers: Someone who is a part of a team of doers uplifts team members and recognizes their specific contributions, takes initiative to help in any circumstance, actively contributes to supporting improvements, and holds themselves accountable to the team as well as to partners.

What is the hiring process?

1. An initial phone interview with Pattern’s talent acquisition team

2. A technical assessment

3. An onsite interview with a panel of department leaders

4. Reference checks

5. Executive review

Why should I work at Pattern?

Pattern offers big opportunities to make a difference in the ecommerce industry! We are a company full of talented people that evolves quickly and often. We set big goals, work tirelessly to achieve them, and we love our Pattern community. We also believe in having fun and balancing our lives, so we offer awesome benefits that include:

- Unlimited PTO

- Paid Holidays

- Onsite Fitness Center

- Company Paid Life Insurance

- Casual Dress Code

- Competitive Pay

- Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance

- 401(k) match. Pattern matches 100% of the first 3% in eligible compensation deferred and 50% of the next 2% in eligible compensation deferred.

Pattern provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.