Sr Backend Engineer, Identity & Access Management

ABOUT THE ROLE As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Identity & Access Management team at LaunchDarkly, you will play a critical role in shaping the authentication experience for our customers. You will own the systems that every customer interacts with before accessing our platform, including SAML and OAuth2 single sign-on, SCIM user and team provisioning, login and session management, multi-factor authentication, and API key and token authentication. Your work will directly impact the security and availability of our platform, making it a non-negotiable aspect of your responsibilities. WHAT YOU'LL DO You will be responsible for making the authentication stack operable and enterprise-ready. This will involve building and operating production authentication and identity systems, ensuring the highest level of security and availability. Your tasks will include: - Owning LaunchDarkly's authentication surface end to end, including single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, login and session flows, multi-factor authentication, and API key and token authentication. - Building enterprise identity capabilities for our largest customers, including additional identity-provider integrations, support for multiple IdPs per account, and MFA enforcement by default. - Making the stack operable, including setting up SLOs, monitoring for certificate expiry and provisioning failures, actionable alerting, runbooks, and a sustainable on-call. - Partnering with Product Security on threat modeling, audit logging, and compliance requirements, including SOC 2 and FedRAMP. - Setting the technical direction for identity at LaunchDarkly and raising the bar for engineers through design review and mentorship. WHAT YOU'LL NEED To succeed in this role, you will need: - 6+ years of professional software-engineering experience, with significant work on complex backend applications. - Experience building or operating production authentication and identity systems. - A track record of working on systems where correctness and availability are non-negotiable, including habits such as backward-compatible change, staged rollouts, and safe cutovers. - Proficiency in at least one backend language (Go, Rust, Python, etc.) and familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS or equivalent), plus strong production ownership including on-call. WHY REMOTE As a remote employee, you will have the flexibility to work from anywhere and enjoy a high level of autonomy. LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency, and we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. BENEFITS - Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 5: - Zone 1: $191,800 - $263,670 - Zone 2: $172,600 - $237,270 - Zone 3: $163,000 - $224,070 - Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.