Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access (Remote)

Owner.com; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 220,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Owner is an AI-native platform helping independent restaurants manage their online presence and secure access across its product surfaces. This 100% remote role focuses on designing and owning authentication, authorization, and identity infrastructure that powers login, sessions, tokens, and access controls across the stack.

Join a small, high-trust team and help build a scalable security foundation while collaborating with product, platform, and security teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and shipping production backend systems, with a track record of owning critical services end to end — not just contributing to them.
• Comfort with Typescript or Javascript — with deep experience in building web-scale applications.
• Hands-on experience building authentication, authorization, identity, permissions, security, or similar platform infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, databases, and operational reliability.
• Strong sense of ownership and urgency — you don’t wait for perfect requirements, you drive toward clarity and keep things moving.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve the authentication and authorization systems that power every product surface across the platform.
• Own critical auth infrastructure end to end — contribute to systems for login, sessions, token management, service-to-service auth, account security, and access enforcement.
• Improve reliability and observability — instrument auth services with the alerting, dashboards, and runbooks needed to detect issues quickly and keep critical access flows healthy.
• Raise the security bar — identify risks, improve controls, and help ensure authentication and authorization are designed thoughtfully from the beginning, not added as an afterthought.
• Leverage AI tools to move faster — use AI tooling to accelerate your work, from writing and reviewing code to exploring solutions and automating repetitive tasks.
• Help us build a great team — interview candidates, share technical context, and raise the bar for how we build.

Skills

Typescript

Javascript

Auth infrastructure

API design

Distributed systems

Ownership

Job description

Owner is an AI-native platform helping independent restaurants manage their online presence and secure access across its product surfaces. This 100% remote role focuses on designing and owning authentication, authorization, and identity infrastructure that powers login, sessions, tokens, and access controls across the stack.

Join a small, high-trust team and help build a scalable security foundation while collaborating with product, platform, and security teams.