Sr Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management (IAM)

As a Sr Software Engineer, you will lead and oversee the software engineering function for Pattern’s central administrative, authentication, authorization, and security infrastructure. In this role, you will serve as a key technical leader for our mission-critical identity and access platform, partnering with other engineering leaders and cross-functional teams to ensure its success. Because this core system underpins all of Pattern's operations, you will partner closely with a wide variety of cross-functional teams to field, prioritize, and build a high volume of feature requests while ensuring the ongoing maintenance, stability, and high performance of existing applications.

Responsibilities

Maintain, scale, and optimize existing central authentication and authorization applications; Triage, scope, and build incoming feature requests from cross-functional teams across Pattern; Write, test, and deploy clean back-end code using Ruby and Go; Design and enforce fine-grained RBAC across internal platforms and external APIs; Collaborate with engineers and product stakeholders to integrate core security services; Automate admin workflows and integrate AI solutions to enhance operational efficiency; Monitor performance, reduce technical debt, and ensure high system availability

Requirements

3+ years of back-end software engineering experience focused on core security, identity, or platform systems; Proven experience building and maintaining central Authentication and Authorization systems; Direct experience with RBAC/ABAC frameworks and security protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT); Strong capability to manage competing feature requests from multiple internal teams while maintaining legacy codebases; Solid background with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and REST/gRPC APIs

Benefits

Unlimited PTO; Paid Holidays; Onsite Fitness Center; Company Paid Life Insurance; Casual Dress Code; Competitive Pay; Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance; 401(k) match (100% of the first 3% and 50% of the next 2% of eligible compensation deferred)