Staff Backend Engineer, Auth & Identity Platform (Remote)

owner; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; CAD 311,000 - 339,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Equity

Health coverage

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Owner is seeking an exceptional engineer to help build and scale the next generation of its authentication and authorization platform. You’ll own login, sessions, permissions, and API security across the product surface, partnering with product, platform, and security to design secure, scalable access flows.

This is a fully remote role available in the United States or Canada, with a strong focus on reliability and secure design.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and shipping production backend systems.
• Deep experience with Typescript/JavaScript for web-scale apps.
• Hands-on authentication and authorization platform infrastructure experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve authentication and authorization systems powering all product surfaces.
• Own end-to-end auth infrastructure including login, sessions, token management and service-to-service auth.
• Improve reliability with observability: dashboards, alerts, runbooks for auth services.
• Raise security by identifying risks and implementing strong controls from the start.
• Collaborate with product, design, and infrastructure to ensure secure access experiences.

Skills

8+ years backend

Typescript/JavaScript

Auth platform infra

API design

Distributed systems

Ownership mindset

Job description

Owner is seeking an exceptional engineer to help build and scale the next generation of its authentication and authorization platform. You’ll own login, sessions, permissions, and API security across the product surface, partnering with product, platform, and security to design secure, scalable access flows.

This is a fully remote role available in the United States or Canada, with a strong focus on reliability and secure design.