Senior Software Engineer II, Security

Lead complex implementations for security engineering to ensure best-in-class customer identity management, authorization, and observability systems. Improve existing security micro-services, custom frameworks, and tooling by addressing technical gaps and implementing emerging standards. Collaborate cross-functionally to implement internal security standards across a micro-service architecture Partner with product teams and stakeholders to balance project priorities, scope, and trade-offs. Drive continuous improvements in engineering tooling, designs, and processes.

Configure and manage complex technical services tooling such as Auth0, Okta, Auth0-FGA, Chronicle, Terraform, and GCP.

Are you passionate about building great software products? At Tempus, software products are owned and developed by small, autonomous teams composed of developers, designers, scientists, and product managers. Our teams set the goals, build the software, deploy the code, and contribute to a growing software platform that will make a lasting impact in the fields of cancer research and precision medicine.

Tempus builds software as nimble as our teams. Our modern tech stack – dynamic languages and the latest open source and cloud services – allows our teams to iterate rapidly and lead our industry in innovation. Our decentralized, microservice architecture and emphasis on loosely coupled architecture and automation allow us to deliver advanced solutions with confidence, and at scale.

Generative AI is changing the way businesses operate, traditional IAM controls need to evolve. As the Sr. Software Engineer II for security engineering you will drive the complex implementation of Tempus’ security vision to ensure Tempus’ patients records and IP are safely utilized by the latest technologies. You have experience driving implementation of holistic solutions across a complex micro-service architecture. Working to build reusable components and ensuring they’re easily consumable by your colleagues on different teams.

You've got several years of experience working on software development teams, and are confident in working independently and collaboratively on a critical system, ensuring uptime and reliability. You have experience developing and securing distributed, event-based systems at an interesting scale of transaction and/or data volume. You've worked in fast‑paced, agile environments and helped keep projects on track, troubleshoot roadblocks, write documentation, and coordinate cross-team collaboration.

You collaborate well with diverse, talented teams while mentoring and learning from team members regardless of experience level. You have experience working with cloud infrastructure providers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, etc), and related tools like Docker, Terraform, or Kubernetes. You’ve have familiarity with an identity management platform like Auth0, Okta, Microsoft Entra, or Ping Identity. You are confident in a variety of technical scenarios and can lead a complex implementation across an engineering organization.

Knowledge of identity standards like OAuth, SCIM, and SAML.

Experience with Type Script, JavaScript, Node.

JS, or Python. Experience with OAuth 2.1 emerging agentic controls. Experience with Chronicle or other SIEMs. Experience with various authorization models, RBAC, ReBAC, ABAC and PBAC.

Lead complex implementations for the security engineering team to ensure best in class customer identity management, authorization, and observability systems across the business. Improve the existing security micro-services, custom frameworks, and tooling by…