# Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Authorization

Hiring organization: [Replit](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/replit)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/25bceb86-bc14-445e-8533-2066010c944a

Listed on Replit's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Foster City, CA
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 250000 – 375000 USD per year

## Summary

You'll design and operate identity and authorization systems that protect interactions across Replit's platform, including new agent-based workflows. This role suits engineers who combine deep security expertise with production systems experience and want to shape foundational infrastructure used by every other team.

_Our summary, not Replit's wording._

## Skills named

Go, gRPC, JSON Web Token (JWT), Kubernetes, Rust, TypeScript

## Required

- Production experience shipping and operating security-sensitive backend or distributed systems
- Depth in authentication, authorization, or identity systems (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, mTLS, identity federation, RBAC, ReBAC, or equivalent)
- Strong understanding of multi-tenant security, least privilege, delegation, and threat modeling
- Experience migrating security-sensitive systems without breaking callers
- Fluency in at least one production backend stack
- Ability to make and communicate tradeoffs across security, reliability, latency, product experience, delivery speed, and maintainability

Apply on Replit's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/replit/790afe73-238a-489c-875e-ac4e15780112/application