Senior Software Engineer, IAM

🕒 April 27

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Docker, Inc

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51 - 200 employees

💰 $105M Series C on 2022-03

At Docker, we simplify the lives of developers who are making world-changing apps. Docker helps developers bring their ideas to reality by conquering the complexity of app development. We simplify and accelerate workflows with an integrated development pipeline and application components. Actively used by millions of developers around the world, Docker Desktop and Docker Hub provide unmatched simplicity, agility and choice.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate Go services powering authentication, authorization, token handling, and identity lifecycle across Docker • Extend OIDC, SSO, SAML, and SCIM integrations, and evolve our authorization model (including ReBAC) as permissions scale across products and tenants • Improve observability, performance, and security posture of identity services on the hot path of every authenticated request, and strengthen audit logging • Design for multi-region operation, graceful degradation, and safe rollout of changes to critical auth flows • Lead projects end-to-end, contribute to technical design and long-term direction of the IAM platform, and mentor teammates in identity and security domains • Partner with Product, Security, and engineering teams that depend on IAM primitives to ensure our APIs are clear, safe, and easy to adopt • Take part in the paid on-call rotation for the team; respond to incidents, debug production issues, and drive continuous improvement of system reliability

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of backend software engineering experience building and operating production services • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Strong proficiency in Go, including building and operating services in production • Solid working knowledge of PostgreSQL - schema design, query performance, migrations, and operating Postgres under real load • Experience with gRPC and event-driven systems using Kafka (or comparable) • Experience operating on AWS • Strong understanding of core identity and security concepts: OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, JWT, token lifecycle, and session management • Experience with authorization models, including RBAC and ReBAC-style approaches • Track record of designing and operating distributed systems where reliability, security, and correctness are first-class concerns • Willingness and ability to participate in an on-call rotation for services on the critical request path • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in a remote, async-first environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life • Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break • Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work • 16 weeks of paid Parental leave • Technology stipend equivalent to $100 net/month • PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy • Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes • Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company • Docker Swag • Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country • Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris