Principal Engineer (Golang)

We are looking for an experienced Principal Engineer with strong background in Golang and security. We’re a series‑B, venture‑backed US tech startup in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) space.

The Role

This is a technical leadership and hands‑on keyboard role where you are responsible for tackling big problems, driving technical approaches, and writing software to implement your great ideas. Your key responsibilities include:

• Regularly seeing features through from idea to fruition – including architecture and design, planning and scheduling, testing, development, and continuous integration and deployment
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform
• Collaborate with peer organizations, DevSecOps, and directly with customers to solve their most challenging identity problems

Your Skills

• Expert‑level developer (10+ years of professional software development experience) – ideally experienced with or interested to learn Golang, Python, React
• Microservices architecture with emphasis on high‑availability and high‑performance
• SaaS/PaaS/IaaS and cloud development technologies such as AWS, Google Cloud, Docker, Cloud Distribution
• "Identity" space experience such as OAuth, SAML, OIDC, or LDAP is strongly preferred
• Security mindset – ideally experienced with identity, encryption, logs, compliance

You’ll bring experience in

• Architecting and developing features, end‑to‑end on several projects
• Being a technical lead for a team of engineers

Geographic location

• Ideally the candidate will be based in the Vancouver BC area
• The company has a distributed development team, so for the right candidate we can support remote work in North America

Our techniques and practices

• Test‑Driven Development
• Practical Agile software practices
• Working in a distributed/remote team