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Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management

On-site Full-time $140.8K/yr - $176K/yr

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Senior

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What You’ll DoArchitect for Scale: Design and develop high-availability, low-latency authentication and authorization services using Go that can handle substantial load spikes across global regions. Drive Next-Gen Innovation: Establish the foundational IAM services for emerging cloud-native AI/ML platforms, creating secure token exchange patterns and identity context injection for agentic AI workflows. Modernize Identity: Spearhead the implementation of OIDC and SAML integrations to facilitate seamless federated Single Sign-On (SSO) for enterprise customers and strategic partners. Solve Complex AuthZ: Enhance our Policy Engine (utilizing industry standards like Rego/OPA) to accommodate advanced resource-level permissions, dynamic scoping, and network-aware access conditions. Evolve Identity Models: Craft and scale resilient, multi-tenant data models to effectively manage intricate hierarchical structures (users, teams, organizations, and resource boundaries) tailored to enterprise customer needs. Operational Excellence: Assume responsibility for service reliability, optimizing Kubernetes deployments, and transitioning legacy data pipelines to modern event-driven architectures.

About the job

DigitalOcean’s Customer Trust & Engineering group forms the core of user security and access. The Identity and Access Management (IAM) team develops and maintains systems that handle billions of secure transactions every second, with a focus on keeping latency low and reliability high.

The Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management (IC3) position centers on designing and evolving DigitalOcean’s Identity platform. This role goes beyond routine maintenance: responsibilities include architecting new features, supporting AI-driven projects, and delivering seamless single sign-on (SSO) integrations for partners worldwide. The role is based in Seattle.

What you will do

  • Design and build new features for DigitalOcean’s Identity platform
  • Enhance the policy engine to support complex, real-world workflows
  • Develop and maintain SSO integrations for partners across the globe
  • Contribute to AI initiatives that rely on secure, scalable identity infrastructure
  • Work on distributed systems with high security requirements and massive scale

Who thrives in this role

  • Engineers who bring a growth mindset and a drive to innovate
  • Those who enjoy solving distributed systems and security challenges
  • People motivated to make a real impact for creators and builders worldwide

About DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean is a pioneering cloud infrastructure provider that empowers developers and businesses to build, deploy, and scale applications quickly and efficiently. Our mission is to simplify cloud computing and provide our users with the tools they need to succeed. We pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment where innovation thrives.

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