Staff Software Engineer, Identity and Access Management

The role

You will design and improve authentication and authorization systems that power the platform. You will own critical auth infrastructure including login, sessions, token management, and service-to-service auth.

What you will do

• Design and improve authentication and authorization systems
• Own critical auth infrastructure end to end
• Improve reliability and observability through alerting, dashboards, and runbooks
• Identify risks and improve security controls
• Use AI tooling to accelerate work
• Interview candidates and raise the bar for building

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and shipping production backend systems
• Track record of owning critical services end to end
• Comfort with Typescript or Javascript
• Deep experience in building web-scale applications
• Hands-on experience building authentication, authorization, identity, permissions, security, or similar platform infrastructure
• Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, databases, and operational reliability
• Strong sense of ownership and urgency

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage
• Work from anywhere (remote-first workplace)
• Unlimited PTO
• Extra fun perks

About the company

Owner is an AI-native system used by local business owners to succeed. The company builds systems that power restaurant websites, online ordering, CRM, POS, and more.