Design, implement, and run Datum's core authentication and authorization stack
Build customer-facing solutions to help our alt-cloud ecosystem thrive
Scale the management, monitoring, and metering of every actor in our system, human or not
Partner with leadership to advance projects with key customers, partners, and suppliers
Design distributed solutions that scale from startup to hyperscale usage patterns
Implement intelligent traffic routing, load balancing, and failover
Build observability, monitoring, and diagnostic tools for complex environments
Optimize control plane performance for AI workloads and high-bandwidth applications with our network team
Drive technical networking decisions in collaboration with our open-source community
Review and mentor contributions from external developers on networking components
Maintain high code quality standards and documentation for network APIs
Represent Datum at conferences and in technical working groups
Design networking solutions that integrate seamlessly with Kubernetes and AI patterns
Build network policies and security frameworks for multi-tenant cloud environments
Implement service mesh integration and east-west traffic optimization
Ensure compatibility with major cloud provider networking services (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Strong working knowledge of OAuth in complex production environments with multiple IdPs, including social and commercial (AWS IAM, Azure Entra, GCP, Auth0, Okta, etc.)
Strong working knowledge of authorization (ABAC, RBAC, PBAC) and its ecosystem (Zanzibar, SpiceDB, OpenFGA, Cedar)
Experience with Workload Identity Federation and/or SPIFFE and opinions about where the puck is going
5+ years of running large-scale production systems on Kubernetes or similar, with security as a first principle
Strong experience with distributed systems design, security, auth, consensus algorithms, async reconciliation, and fault tolerance
Enough familiarity with Kubernetes patterns and APIs that you can speak custom resources and admission controllers
Strong experience with infrastructure as code (Flux, Terraform, Pulumi) for provisioning
Familiarity with SRv6, edge computing, or modern network routing would be a huge plus
Track record of contributing to or maintaining networking-focused open-source projects
Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical decision-making in teams
Understanding of open-source governance, community building, and public development
Passion for building networking tools that other developers and operators love to use

Senior Engineer – Auth

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