Senior Engineer, Foundations - remote

Auth0
Posted 4 years ago
Stack Overflow

Auth0 is a unicorn that just closed a $120M Series F round of funding, with total capital raised to date of $330M and valuation of nearly $2B. We are growing rapidly and looking for exceptional new team members to add to our exceptional talent pool - and who will help take us to the next level of success. One team, one score. 

Our vision is to provide people with secure access to any application in one click or less. And our promise is to make identity work for everyone—whether you’re a developer looking to innovate, or a security professional looking to mitigate. We are looking for curious, excited, boundary-pushing team members. So, if you’re a big thinker who is nimble and adaptable, Auth0 may be an ideal place for you to shine.

Auth0 gives companies simple, powerful and developer friendly building blocks so they can free up resources to focus on innovation. We strive to be the identity platform of choice for developers and Enterprises. We take our culture very seriously and are looking for people who are drawn to both our mission and our culture. 

The Auth0 platform secures more than 100 million logins each day for customers all around the world - and we're growing fast! We are looking for software engineers with the motivation and experience to bring it all to the next level.

The Engineering Enablement Domain, focuses on solving hard foundational engineering problems, to enable Auth0 to move fast with confidence. We create and offer a set of building blocks and abstractions on top of our Platform, that allow the product Engineers to develop faster. We have several teams that go from building Cloud Agnostic libraries, shared rate limiting, and DB access services, frameworks and Libraries for Security Enablement to modern SRE and SDET work.

This specific position focuses on hiring for the “Foundations”team where we work to create abstractions to shared problems such as Logging, rate limiting, storing on different cloud providers, and managing shared components (e.g. async garbage collector) and services in the company. We work with NodeJS ( Javascript or Typescript), and a hint of Go. 

You're a good fit for this role if:

    • You have 7+ years of software development experience.
    • You have previous experience using Node.js (JavaScript or Typescript).
    • You have experience creating and maintaining public APIs.
    • You are passionate about working on systems that are highly-reliable, maintainable and scalable.
    • You have experience and passion for good engineering practices and testing.
    • You excel when working autonomously, and know when to seek help from your team members.
    • You have solid experience with cloud environments (AWS and Azure preferred).

Requirements:

    • You are interested in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
    • You have a systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
    • You have designed applications and systems that scale, are resilient to failure, and are observable.
    • You have practical experience developing and improving applications written in Node.js or Go.

Preferred Skills:

    • Have experience with Cloud environments from several vendors.
    • You understand the Devops culture and like moving between infrastructure and code.
    • Knowledge of security engineering and application security.
    • Have experience with Kubernetes and containerized architectures.
    • Proven experience and understanding of architecture principles across infrastructure platforms, security, data, integration, and application layers.

Preferred Locations:

    • #EU

Auth0 safeguards more than 4.5 billion login transactions each month and its top priorities are availability and security.

We like to think that we are helping make the internet safer. Our team is spread across more than 35 countries and we are proud to continually be recognized as a great place to work. Culture is critical to us, and we are transparent about our vision and principles

Auth0 is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Auth0 conducts all employment-related activities without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, citizenship status, genetics, or status as a Vietnam-era special disabled and other covered veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Auth0 participates in E-Verify and will confirm work authorization for candidates residing in the United States.