Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Authorization

Foster City, CA · Remote · full time · Senior

$250,000 – $375,000

Listed on Replit’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

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. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

What they ask for

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