Staff Engineer, Identity & Access Governance

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus program

Health insurance

401(k)

Paid leave

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff Engineer for the OIG team to drive design, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-grade access governance features at scale. You will shape system architecture, own critical components, and collaborate with product, design, and operations to deliver secure, reliable software.

You will lead with craft, tackle complex problems, and influence across multiple teams to ensure multi-tenant, highly available solutions used by thousands of enterprises.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience in production environments.
• Proven track record architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems.
• Expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data modeling at scale.
• Strong backend skills in Java, Kotlin, or Go (or equivalent JVM/cloud-native languages).
• Ability to influence technical alignment across teams without formal authority.
• Experience building systems with enterprise reliability, security (RBAC/ABAC), and multi-tenancy.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of feature areas from design to post-launch monitoring.
• Design, build, and ship high-quality, production features across the OIG system.
• Deliver timely bug fixes and address customer-reported issues.
• Write clean, well-tested code and uphold engineering quality standards.
• Collaborate with Product, QA, and SRE teams to scope and deploy work.

Skills

8+ years

Distributed systems

Microservices

Java/Kotlin/Go

Architecting software

Influence without authority

Enterprise security & RBAC/ABAC

Strong communication

Education

B.S. Computer Science

Tools

Cloud infrastructure

Observability tooling

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff Engineer for the OIG team to drive design, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-grade access governance features at scale. You will shape system architecture, own critical components, and collaborate with product, design, and operations to deliver secure, reliable software.

You will lead with craft, tackle complex problems, and influence across multiple teams to ensure multi-tenant, highly available solutions used by thousands of enterprises.