Staff Software Engineer — Identity & Access (Edge Auth)

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus (if applicable)

Remote work

Job summary

Grafana Labs is shaping the future of identity at scale. We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer – Identity and Access to own authentication infrastructure for millions of users, across open-source and proprietary codebases.

You will define technical direction, drive edge authentication redesign, and mentor engineers. Join a remote-first, globally distributed team and influence security, reliability, and product velocity while collaborating with leadership, product management, and

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building low-latency, high-throughput services.
• Proven ability to define technical direction and drive architecture.
• Experience delivering large-scale production systems end-to-end.
• Mentor and develop senior engineers.
• Strong knowledge of OAuth 2.x/2.1, OIDC, SAML, LDAP, SCIM.
• Excellent English communication.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for authentication systems and lead complex initiatives from conception through delivery.
• Collaborate with leadership, product management, and cross-functional partners to define authentication for millions of users.
• Define architecture for the Identity squad’s authentication systems and edge redesign.
• Mentor senior engineers and provide design feedback.
• Drive alignment on OAuth, OIDC, SAML, LDAP, and SCIM across Grafana.
• Represent Grafana at meetups and conferences and contribute to the identity community.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Mentoring

English fluency

Identity protocols

System reliability

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenFGA

KiFederate IDP

Prometheus/OpenTelemetry

Job description

Grafana Labs is shaping the future of identity at scale. We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer – Identity and Access to own authentication infrastructure for millions of users, across open-source and proprietary codebases.

You will define technical direction, drive edge authentication redesign, and mentor engineers. Join a remote-first, globally distributed team and influence security, reliability, and product velocity while collaborating with leadership, product management, and