(Required) Have 4+ years of professional experience writing and shipping Go in production
(Required) Have 2+ years of professional experience working on an authentication system (implementing protocol support, maintenance at scale)
(Required) Have strong relational database experience (Postgres or MySQL); Postgres experience is a bonus
Have strong knowledge of TypeScript in addition to Go (languages used daily)
Have strong knowledge of web technology fundamentals (cookies, sessions, JWT, HTTP, browser APIs)
Have good knowledge of and deep interest in authentication security (passwords, protocols such as OAuth, OIDC or SAML, cryptography fundamentals such as hash functions, signatures and ciphers)
Have experience working with multiple web frameworks like Next.js (or other SSR alternative in the JavaScript space) and traditional web frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Django, Laravel or equivalent (in any language)
Have good technical writing skills (RFC process is an important part of making changes to the Auth product)
Have hands-on experience building and operating services at significant scale
Have deep understanding of systems-level concerns: memory management, concurrency patterns, and compute resource optimization in Go
Have experience with Kubernetes and AWS (or comparable cloud platform) in a production setting
Have solid grasp of observability practices — metrics, distributed tracing, structured logging, and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
Have experience managing database schema migrations safely at scale