Backend Engineer

About the role

We pride ourselves on shipping code frequently and learning as we go. We also have critical security, performance, and uptime requirements, so finding the right ways to ship frequently within those requirements is very important. We all love to learn and grow. Our leadership team has experience working with and mentoring engineers at both startups and top companies. We'll work with our hires to craft this role to their interests, skill set, and long-term career goals. If you’re passionate about building products that make a complex problem easy for your end users, this job is for you. As part of a small team, you’ll have the opportunity to shape both the product and the engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Our backend is written in Rust with a few parts in Python and TypeScript
• Design understandable, performant, and secure APIs for authentication and authorization
• Design architecture for high availability - as a critical part of our customer's stack, uptime and performance are incredibly important
• Learn and support new auth standards like MCP and WebAuthn
• Be creative! In addition to auth, we want to provide our customers with all the tools they need to be successful. As a small team, we like supporting our employees' ideas.
• Build client libraries/middleware in a variety of different languages/frameworks - no language or community is too small
• Help manage infrastructure with Packer and Pulumi on AWS
• Work with our Support team to understand the needs of our users

Requirements

• 3+ years engineering experience
• Experience working independently on small teams
• Excited to build products that customers love
• Ability to move quickly, but carefully
• Experience with authentication or security appreciated but not required

Benefits

• Health insurance
• PTO

Schedule

We're a remote-first team, spread over the US. Working hours are flexible but we ask that you have 4-5 hours of overlap with 9am-5pm PST.