Staff Software Engineer - Access Management Platform

Menlo Ventures; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks, the Data + AI company, is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Access Management team in Bellevue, WA. You’ll help set the technical direction for the platform’s core authorization services and enable precise access for users, apps, and automated workloads.

You’ll drive a unified authorization model, design fine‑grained controls, manage network ingress for customer resources, and raise the availability of a high‑throughput, low‑latency service, collaborating across locations.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in access management, identity, or authorization systems.
• Strong distributed systems and security fundamentals.
• Demonstrated technical leadership on a team, ideally across multiple locations.
• Track record of designing and shipping backend services at scale.

Responsibilities

• Evolving the platform's core authorization service – the system is on the critical path of every access‑control decision.
• Migrating and consolidating permission‑checking across the platform onto a unified authorization model.
• Building fine‑grained access controls: scoped service identities, delegated access, and role‑based access control.
• Network ingress access policy for customer resources.
• Raising the availability and reliability of a high‑throughput, low‑latency authorization service.

Skills

Access management

Distributed systems

Security fundamentals

Technical leadership

Backend services

Job description

Databricks, the Data + AI company, is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Access Management team in Bellevue, WA. You’ll help set the technical direction for the platform’s core authorization services and enable precise access for users, apps, and automated workloads.

You’ll drive a unified authorization model, design fine‑grained controls, manage network ingress for customer resources, and raise the availability of a high‑throughput, low‑latency service, collaborating across locations.