(Senior) Softwareentwickler Java (m/w/d)

Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. We are seeking a

Senior Software Engineer (IC3) to join our

Customer Trust & Engineering

team working on Identity and Access Management. In this role, you wont just maintain existing systems—you will architect the next generation of our Identity platform. You will be instrumental in supporting our AI initiatives, building seamless SSO integrations for global partners, and evolving our policy engine to support complex, agentic workflows. If you are passionate about distributed systems, security-first engineering, and building at hyperscale, this is the team for you.
Build the IAM foundations for emerging cloud-native AI/ML platforms, designing secure token exchange patterns and identity context injection for agentic AI workflows.
Modernize Identity:

Lead the implementation of OIDC and SAML integrations, enabling seamless federated Single Sign-On (SSO) for enterprise customers and strategic global partners.
Solve Complex AuthZ:

Evolve our

Policy Engine

(using industry standards like Rego/OPA) to support advanced resource-level permissions, dynamic scoping, and network-aware access conditions.
Evolve Identity Models:

Design and scale robust, multi-tenant data models to manage complex hierarchical structures (users, teams, organizations, and resource boundaries) that map to enterprise customer needs.
Operational Excellence:

Take ownership of service reliability, from fine-tuning Kubernetes deployments to migrating legacy data pipelines to modern eventing architectures.
Security First:

Proactively identify and remediate complex security vulnerabilities, ensuring our auth flows are resilient against credential stuffing, session hijacking, and configuration theft.
Mentor & Lead:

Act as a technical lead for major workstreams, conducting deep code reviews and mentoring junior engineers in distributed systems best practices.
Experience:

5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years focused on Identity (AuthN/AuthZ), Security Products, or high-scale Distributed Systems.
Language Expert:

Expert-level proficiency in

Go

and a strong understanding of

gRPC

microservices architecture.
Identity Specialist:

Deep knowledge of identity protocols ( OIDC, OAuth2, SAML ) and access control models ( RBAC, ABAC, PBAC ).
Distributed Systems Guru:

Proven ability to build systems that handle consensus, replication, and partitioning at cloud scale.
Cloud Native:

Working experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes ) , SQL (MySQL), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
Ability to communicate technical strategy to senior leadership and collaborate across teams (Inference, Billing, DOKS).
Experience with

Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego.
Familiarity with Cloud-native deployment strategies (Canary/Blue-Green) via kubernetes.
This is a remote role
LI-Remote
You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learnings 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
We care about your well-being.

Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Application Limit:

You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.