About the Role
This is a hands-on technical leadership role at the intersection of identity security and distributed systems engineering. You'll write code, design systems, set technical standards, and mentor engineers — while partnering closely with Product Management to define what we build next.
You'll own the full stack: backend services that continuously evaluate millions of identity configurations, a frontend used daily by enterprise security teams, and the data infrastructure that powers posture scoring and proactive risk remediation.
What You'll Do
Technical Strategy & Leadership
- Direct the ISPM technical roadmap by converting product requirements into robust system designs, mapping out implementation phases, and making strategic build-vs-extend decisions.
- Architect, design, and scale core identity security posture systems.
- Cultivate and drive cross-functional technical alliances with platform teams across the security and identity stack.
- Author, review, and evaluate technical design documents while facilitating architectural discussions and design reviews.
- Establish, promote, and uphold engineering best practices across the sub-team, focusing on testing, code quality, API design, and observability.
Software Engineering & Architecture
- Construct and scale high-performance backend services using Go — including event-driven systems, REST/gRPC APIs, cron jobs, and integration layers.
- Build and maintain user-facing interfaces using React/TypeScript — focusing on policy dashboards, identity visualization, and mitigation workflows.
- Design, model, and optimize database schemas capable of handling large-scale multi-tenant identity workloads.
- Implement event-driven architectures using Kafka as a message queue to manage asynchronous workflows and ensure continuous evaluation of identity postures.
- Maintain operational reliability and service health through standard runbooks, feature flags, and robust monitoring setups.
Team Collaboration & Delivery
- Support, mentor, and guide a distributed team of 3-4 engineers located across India and Singapore.
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers and EM to align on technical strategy, prioritize roadmaps, and deliver quarterly key results and milestones.
- Own operational health for all services — on-call rotation, incident response, and SLO management.
- Serve as the team representative during organizational alignment, review sessions, and client interactions.
Requirements
Must-Have Qualifications
- 7+ years of software development experience, including at least 2+ years in a tech lead or senior technical leadership role.
- Proven track record of mentoring engineers and elevating the overall technical standards of the team.
- Exceptional system architecture skills—experienced in designing and running scalable, multi-tenant, event-driven distributed systems at scale.
- Deep hands-on experience with Kafka or similar high-throughput event-streaming technologies.
- Extensive backend production experience with Go—writing idiomatic services with clean design patterns, thorough testing, and robust error handling.
- Production-level React and TypeScript skills, with the capability to drive and own user-facing features end-to-end.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and PostgreSQL—including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling for multi-tenant workloads.
- Superb communication abilities—expert at detailing technical trade-offs to PMs, presenting architecture to leadership, and writing comprehensive design documents.
- High tolerance for ambiguity—adept at making decisions with partial data and iterating quickly.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Experience in identity security, IAM, or security posture management.
- Background in cybersecurity products.
- Experience with gRPC/Protobuf API design.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted software development workflows and tools.