Senior Backend Engineer, Identity & Access Management

🕒 August 12

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $163k - $224.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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LaunchDarkly

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 $200M Series D on 2021-08

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

LaunchDarkly is a software company offering a platform for feature management and experimentation. Its solutions allow developers to control software releases through feature flags, enabling safeguarded and progressive rollouts. The platform integrates with various developer tools and supports multiple programming languages to streamline deployment and improve the developer experience. LaunchDarkly's solutions cater to industries including financial services, healthcare, high tech, retail, and government, among others, providing a robust infrastructure that aids in delivering customized and targeted user experiences.

📋 Description

• Own LaunchDarkly’s authentication surface end to end, including single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, login and session flows, multi-factor authentication, and API key and token authentication • Build enterprise identity capabilities, including additional identity-provider integrations, multiple IdPs per account, and default MFA enforcement • Make the identity stack operable through SLOs, monitoring, actionable alerting, runbooks, and sustainable on-call • Partner with Product Security on threat modeling, audit logging, and SOC 2 and FedRAMP compliance requirements • Set the technical direction for identity at LaunchDarkly • Raise engineering standards through design review and mentorship

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software-engineering experience with significant work on complex backend applications • Experience building or operating production authentication and identity systems • Track record working on systems where correctness and availability are non-negotiable • Experience with backward-compatible changes, staged rollouts, and safe cutovers • Proficiency in at least one backend language, such as Go, Rust, or Python • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, such as AWS or equivalent • Strong production ownership, including on-call • Bonus: Protocol depth in SAML, OIDC/OAuth2, or SCIM • Bonus: Integration experience with Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, OneLogin, or Ping • Bonus: MFA/WebAuthn, RBAC and authorization policy engines, or audit logging at multi-tenant scale • Bonus: Engineering under compliance regimes such as SOC 2 or FedRAMP

🏖️ Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) • Health insurance • Vision insurance • Dental insurance • Mental health benefits