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Backend Engineer, IAM

Backend engineer building consumer identity, authentication, and authorization services that serve a very large user base on a major social platform.

The role

This role sits on the Identity and Access Management team, which owns the systems handling sign-in, permissions, and service-level access for a huge daily user population. The engineer will help shape the team's roadmap while building scalable backend services and working closely with product, security, and other engineering groups.

What you would do

  • Help pick, scope, and deliver high-impact projects that support company objectives
  • Carry out an architectural direction that makes IAM faster, more scalable, and more maintainable
  • Partner with teams across the engineering organization on shared work
  • Grow your technical and professional skills over time
  • Design and ship backend services for a heavily trafficked consumer product
  • Contribute to defining the IAM vision and roadmap with product, security, and client teams

What they asked for

  • At least three years building distributed backend systems
  • Hands-on experience with authorization or authentication backends
  • Working proficiency in one or more general-purpose languages, ideally Go
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, AWS, or GCP
  • Strong empathy and clear communication for cross-team collaboration
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