Key skills
Distributed SystemsKafkaKubernetesPostgresGoGolangIAMPostgreSQLOAuthGitCI/CDCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Own the technical strategy and architecture of our IAM platform
- Design and evolve OAuth 2.0 / OIDC flows and token lifecycle
- Drive decisions on protocol design, data modeling, and platform reliability
- Identify systemic risks and performance bottlenecks
- Define engineering standards, review critical code and designs
- Collaborate with product, security, and infra teams
Requirements
- Deep understanding of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and related auth flows
- Solid grasp of cookie security, CSRF, XSS, token storage, TLS, and secure session management
- Experience designing or operating production-grade IAM or auth systems
- Experience working in the video game industry
- Strong Go (Golang) engineering skills
- Experience with distributed systems and their trade-offs
- Schema design, query optimization, migrations at scale in PostgreSQL
- Deploying, operating, and debugging services in Kubernetes
- Experience with event-driven patterns, consumer groups in Kafka or NATS
- Git and modern CI/CD practices
- Proven ability to lead multi-quarter technical initiatives across teams
- Track record of influencing architecture and standards beyond immediate team
- You write RFCs and design docs that people actually read
Tech Stack
- Distributed Systems
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Postgres
- Go
Benefits
- Strong written communication is essential
- Significant autonomy in decisions
- Opportunities for mentorship
- Work across multiple time zones
- Collaboration with product, security, and infra teams