Staff Software Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Competitive salary (Not specified in detail) SGNL is seeking top talent to solve authorization-at-scale for the world's largest companies. They are a well-funded startup focused on enterprise authorization and offer an integrated access service for managing authorization based on role, context, and justification.

About You

• Proven software engineering skills.
• Experience building and launching large, distributed systems in a team-centric environment.
• Versatile and able to thrive in a dynamic, entrepreneurial setting.
• Eager to mentor junior engineers.
• Comfortable managing competing priorities and bringing order to ambiguous scenarios.
• Possess maturity, impeccable judgment, and the ability to influence and lead.
• Data-driven and analytical.
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate (written and verbally) across the organization and up to senior leadership.
• Values diverse perspectives and has a growth mindset.

About SGNL

• Founded in 2021 by product and engineering leaders from Google, Okta, and Microsoft.
• Focuses on pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the enterprise authorization space.
• Helps enterprise companies to make sense of access to sensitive information and ensure the trust of their customers.
• Offers an integrated access service for organizations to manage authorization based on role, context, and justification, remediate authorization requests, and prevent anomalous user behavior through modeling expected user behavior across applications.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• 6+ years of programming experience with at least one modern language such as Go, Java, C++, or C#.
• 5+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Experience building cloud-deployed applications.
• BS/BE in Computer Science or related field.

Responsibilities

• Building and launching large, distributed systems.
• Contributing to the architecture and design of systems.
• Mentoring junior engineers.
• Managing competing priorities.
• Communicating effectively with stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years experience architecting high scale, distributed systems that handle large amounts of data.
• Solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, reliability, and availability.
• Proven track record of building and delivering mission-critical, production software systems.
• Proven track record of technical leadership and ability to mentor other software engineers.
• Domain experience in AuthN/AuthZ technologies (a plus).
• Masters/PhD in Computer Science or related field.

Company Information

• Location Options: Remote, hybrid, or in-person are all acceptable.
• SGNL HQ: Palo Alto, California.
• Benefits:
  • Employee equity plan.
  • Flexible PTO.
  • Health coverage.

Equal Opportunity Employer

SGNL is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or disability.