Senior Software Engineer – JIT Proxy

The role

You will design, build, and operate secure proxies and cloud services for the JIT Proxy team. This involves developing distributed systems that provide just-in-time access to resources like databases, servers, and Kubernetes clusters.

What you will do

• Design, build, test, and maintain highly concurrent services for secure just-in-time access.
• Build and extend proxy capabilities for protocols including SSH, RDP, Kubernetes, and databases.
• Develop distributed systems to deliver and enforce tenant policy, identity, and resource data.
• Build, deploy, and operate cloud services on Kubernetes and Azure.
• Write clean, well-tested software focused on secure networking, reliability, and performance.
• Work with architects, product managers, and partner platform teams to deliver features.
• Diagnose complex connectivity, protocol, security, and performance issues.
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to code and design reviews.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend, distributed, networking, or systems-level software.
• Strong experience with concurrent programming, networking, and network protocols.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, including reliability, failure handling, APIs, and service-to-service communication.
• Experience building secure software, including authentication, encryption, credential handling, or other security considerations for networked systems.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or another major cloud provider and cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• A track record of mentoring other engineers and an eagerness to learn new technologies, protocols, and new problem domains.

Nice to have

• Experience developing production software in Go (Golang), particularly concurrent or networked services.
• Experience building proxies, gateways, or other networked systems, including implementing or debugging protocols such as SSH, RDP, Kubernetes, or database protocols.
• Experience with security and identity technologies, including authentication, secrets management, credential brokering, or policy-as-code and authorization engines such as Cedar.
• Experience with observability and event-driven systems using technologies such as OpenTelemetry and message brokers.
• Experience shipping software into customer environments, including handling version skew, upgrades, and operational troubleshooting.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and development tooling such as Terraform, Azure DevOps or similar CI/CD systems, and container-based integration testing.
• Understanding of Zero Trust architectures, just-in-time and least-privilege access, FIPS compliance, and secure software development practices.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Meaningful equity and bonus program
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) matching
• ROTH
• Comprehensive life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Generous discretionary time off (DTO)
• 12 paid holidays
• 12 weeks of paid leave for new birth, adoption, surrogacy, or foster-to-adopt primary caregivers
• 6 weeks of paid leave for secondary caregivers

Before you apply

• Candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check
• Verification of education
• Verification of employment
• Publicly posted social media sites may be reviewed

About the company

Delinea is the identity security platform that continuously controls what AI agents, humans and machines can do and for how long. It provides visibility across every identity type and supports both static and ephemeral access.