Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management Reno, NV San Ramon, CA

Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management

Are you a seasoned engineer with a passion for building secure, scalable identity and access solutions? Do you enjoy designing robust authentication services and guiding teams through technical complexity? Are you eager to collaborate across teams to strengthen enterprise‑grade security foundations? If so, we invite you to be a part of our innovative team.

As a Staff Software Engineer on Ridgeline’s Users & Entitlements team, you will be a core contributor to the design and delivery of authentication and authorization services that power our entire platform. These services play a critical role in our Security First culture by ensuring users are verified, authorized, and properly provisioned across the Ridgeline ecosystem. You’ll collaborate closely with Platform, Product, and Security engineering teams to solve high‑impact challenges using modern technologies, including AI tools like Git Hub Copilot and ChatGPT.

At Ridgeline, how we work matters as much as what we build. Ridgeliners act like owners, choose growth over comfort, and communicate with transparency. We assume positive intent, bias toward action, and bring solutions—not just problems. We celebrate wins, learn from setbacks, and thrive in a resilient, collaborative, high‑performing culture. If the Ridgeline Way excites you, we’d love to meet you.

• Provide technical expertise for user authentication and authorization, performance, scalability, and security
• Use AI tools thoughtfully throughout the SDLC to accelerate research, prototyping, implementation, testing, documentation, and review, while ensuring outputs are accurate, secure, maintainable, and production‑ready.
• Design, build, and test solutions that integrate with Auth0 and Single Sign On Identity Providers to handle authentication
• Handle On‑Call rotations for production support of the authentication and authorization services
• Be involved in the entire software development process, including requirements and design, implementation, code reviews, automation, and testing through end product delivery
• Impact a developing tech stack based on modern serverless frameworks and cost‑efficient utilization of AWS back‑end services
• Coach, mentor, and inspire teams of product engineers that are responsible for delivering high performing, secure enterprise applications
• Proactively collaborate across Platform, Product, and Security teams as well as cross‑functionally to establish partnerships and champion innovation

• 8+ years in a software engineering position with a history of architecting and designing new products and technologies
• 2+ years experience engineering focusing on Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Experience using Auth0 and Single Sign On (SSO) for authentication
• History of architecting, designing, and delivering security‑first enterprise applications in the cloud using agile development methodologies
• Experience managing large and distributed code bases at scale
• Deep knowledge of object‑oriented programming such as Java, Kotlin, or Python
• Strong experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience with critical infrastructure services including monitoring, alerting, and logging
• Experience using issue tracking tools such as JIRA
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and architectural patterns
• A degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or a related discipline
• Ability to focus on short‑term deliverables while maintaining a big‑picture perspective
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Serious interest in having fun at work

• Experience with AI‑assisted development workflows, including tools such as Claude, Cursor, Copilot, or similar.
• Understanding of building back‑end infrastructure using AWS, with specific focus on RDS and Lambda
• Experience with messaging frameworks such as Kafka
• Familiarity with cloud based multi‑region application architectures
• Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest, Pytest, and Cypress
• Experience developing mission‑critical enterprise software applications

Ridgeline is proud to be a community‑minded, discrimination‑free equal opportunity workplace.