Senior Software Engineer, Authentication & Authorization

Description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Authentication & Authorization team. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you’ll apply your technical and domain expertise to design, implement, and maintain secure authentication and authorization systems; drive design discussions, code reviews, and project-related team meetings; and collaborate with other engineers as you develop solutions for our software as a service (SaaS) products that help scientists save time and increase their experiment quality.

You Will:

Implement new features and bug fixes within our authentication and authorization services

Work with your immediate team engineers to do technical investigations, solution designs, code implementation with automated tests, and code reviews

Lead or consult the authoring of engineering design proposals following our product roadmap at BenchSci

Leverage a deep understanding of the business context and the team’s goals to unlock independent technical decisions in the face of open-ended requirements

Proactively identify new opportunities (from both internal and external sources) and advocate for and implement improvements to the current state of projects

Adhere to and improve our high standards of highly scalable and maintainable code

Help set a high standard for exceptional engineers who are outcome-oriented and positively contribute to the team's culture

Be given an unmatched opportunity for accelerated growth and learn from a team of world-class engineers

Provide troubleshooting analysis and resolution in a timely manner

Work on projects involving some of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world

Solve difficult problems and bring new perspectives to the team

You Have:

A degree in Computer Science/Engineering or a related field within science

Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)

Experience with authentication solutions and SSO

High comfort working with a Python back-end and a React/Typescript front-end

4+ years of experience working as a professional full-stack developer

Nice-to-Haves, But Not Mandatory Qualifications:

Experience with Auth0 or similar Identity as a Service (IDaaS) platform

Experience working with a security-first mindset, including knowledge of OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and secure coding practices

Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools

Experience with SAML, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect

Experience with RBAC or ABAC authorization models