Engineering Architect, Identity (Auth0)

• →You will collaborate with Product, Security, and Engineering teams to define and continually improve Auth0’s technology stack and architecture.
• →Foster and lead innovation in the IAM space, with a strong focus on Agentic Identity
• →Lead initiatives to enhance, scale, and evolve Auth0’s product offerings.
• →Embed within Engineering teams across the organization for large projects, while providing guidance and lighter touch engagements for smaller initiatives.
• →Design, architect, and document large scale distributed systems.
• →Lead the development of complex, broadly-scoped functionality in a very large and deep set of services and components.
• →Teach by doing: coding, optimizing, and troubleshooting Node.js and Go applications in collaboration with feature development teams.
• →Implement features and create consistent foundations using technologies such as AWS, Azure, Node.js, Go, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes.
• →Investigate, understand, and resolve bottlenecks in our ability to scale, use resources efficiently, and maintain a 99.99% uptime SLA.
• →Drive technical decision making while striving to find the right balance between factors such as simplicity, flexibility, reliability, cost, and performance.
• →Participate in “round table” discussions and mentor team members and engineers throughout the organization to level up our people.
• →Participate in our Engineering Leadership Team with other architects, directors, and executives.
• →You will join our Incident Commander on-call rotation. Members of our team do periodic on-call rotation for high-severity incidents to help up-level our responses After spending time getting acquainted with our applications, systems, and processes, and getting training to 

• 10+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years of experience working on cloud applications.
• Experience with API-first applications using REST and/or gRPC
• Passion and thorough understanding of what it takes to build and operate secure, reliable systems at scale.
• Knowledge of Identity Protocols such as OAuth, OIDC and SAML.
• Industry knowledge of the Authorization and Authentication spaces.
• Experience in building AI Agents, and/or MCP servers applications. 
• Experience with security engineering and application security.
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to adjust your communication style to the intended audience, whether communicating with senior executives, customers, engineers, or product managers.
• Mastery and deep understanding of hands-on software development building distributed systems.
• Experience with multi-cloud environments and container deployments, particularly Kubernetes in AWS/Azure.
• Prior experience with application performance management, tracing, and performance testing tools.
• Excellence at creating clarity and alignment for technical initiatives. 
• Great ability to build trust through collaboration with multiple teams and get consensus on a vision.
• Knowledge of application security and cloud security best practices.

• Supporting Your Well-Being 
• Driving Social Impact 
• Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community

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