Role overview

Starboard Recruitment, on behalf of our client, is searching for an experienced Principal Engineer.Our client is a top-tier, venture-backed, Series-B, US-based tech startup with a team of experts in the Identity and Access Management space (IAM). Successful candidates with be highly experience with Golang and ideally have a background within the security space. Read below for further details. Apply today and our team will reach out to qualified candidates to discuss. Follow Starboard Recruitment on LinkedIn for ongoing job opportunities, market updates and advice: https://www.linkedin.com/company/starboard-recruitment

The Role

This is technical leadership and a 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

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