Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rockstar is recruiting for an innovative data platform company that builds secure, scalable systems for identity, access control, and data management. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and scale core services that power user controls, identity, security, and data access across their platform, focusing on backend service development and contributions to Dgraph internals.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services for user controls, identity, and security across the platform
- Develop and strengthen secure content sharing capabilities, ensuring the right users have access to the right data under the appropriate conditions
- Contribute to Data Studio and related tools that expose platform data to internal and external users
- Work on Dgraph internals when needed while building services and applications on top of Dgraph
- Partner with platform, infrastructure, and integrations teams to maintain consistent identity and security primitives across the ecosystem
- Drive technical decisions around data access patterns, permissions models, and secure sharing architecture
- Write high-quality, well-tested code in Go and Python with a focus on reliability, security, and performance
- Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, and technical planning for the data platform
Skills
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience in backend or platform engineering
- Strong proficiency in Go and Python
- Experience building identity, access control, permissions, authentication, authorization, or other security-focused systems
- Comfortable working across the full stack, with a strong preference and expertise in backend services
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, reliability, security, and performance optimization
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional engineering teams
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident residing within the United States
- Experience with graph databases (Dgraph or similar) is highly preferred
- Interest in contributing to database internals is a plus
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