Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Owner is an AI-native system that helps local business owners, beginning with restaurants, manage operations and grow their businesses. The Staff Software Engineer will help build and own foundational identity and access management systems, including authentication, authorization, permissions, sessions, and service-to-service security. The role also focuses on reliability, observability, security improvements, AI-assisted development, and technical team building.
Responsibilities
- Help build the foundation for secure access at Owner — design and improve the authentication and authorization systems that power every product surface across the platform
- Own critical auth infrastructure end to end — contribute to systems for login, sessions, token management, service-to-service auth, account security, and access enforcement
- Improve reliability and observability — instrument auth services with the alerting, dashboards, and runbooks needed to detect issues quickly and keep critical access flows healthy
- Raise the security bar — identify risks, improve controls, and help ensure authentication and authorization are designed thoughtfully from the beginning, not added as an afterthought
- Leverage AI tools to move faster — use AI tooling to accelerate your work, from writing and reviewing code to exploring solutions and automating repetitive tasks
- Help us build a great team — interview candidates, share technical context, and raise the bar for how we build
Skills
- 8+ years of experience building and shipping production backend systems, with a track record of owning critical services end to end — not just contributing to them
- Comfort with Typescript or Javascript — with deep experience in building web-scale applications
- Hands-on experience building authentication, authorization, identity, permissions, security, or similar platform infrastructure
- Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, databases, and operational reliability
- Strong sense of ownership and urgency — you don't wait for perfect requirements, you drive toward clarity and keep things moving
Benefits
- A generous pre-IPO equity package
- Comprehensive health coverage
- Work from anywhere (remote-first workplace)
- Unlimited PTO
- Extra fun perks
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