Staff Software Development Engineer - JIT Proxy

Delinea is a provider of identity security solutions and operates the StrongDM universal access management platform. The Staff Software Development Engineer will shape the architecture and technical direction of secure, high-scale proxy and control-plane systems written in Go, while resolving complex distributed-systems challenges. The role also includes cross-team technical leadership, design reviews, documentation, and mentoring.

Responsibilities:

• Help design the architecture and technical direction of highly concurrent, distributed backend systems in Go (Golang), setting engineering standards that extend across multiple teams within StrongDM and Delinea
• Drive design decisions for the proxy data plane (gateways and relays) and control-plane services, evaluating tradeoffs on the platform’s most complex and ambiguous technical problems
• Partner with architects, product managers, and DevOps/SRE leadership to shape multi-quarter system roadmaps
• Serve as a subject matter expert on secure network protocols and cryptographic systems (TLS/mTLS, credential brokering, key management), guiding their application across the platform
• Lead code and design reviews across teams, holding a high bar for performance, security, and maintainability, and coach engineers on applying that bar independently
• Investigate and resolve the most challenging technical issues in distributed, multi-cloud production environments, often requiring evaluation of ambiguous or intangible tradeoffs
• Author and maintain architectural and technical strategy documentation that informs decisions beyond your immediate team
• Mentor engineers across the team and may direct the work of others, building the cross-team relationships that help align engineering execution with company objectives

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related technical discipline
• 8+ years of professional experience working as a software engineer, with deep expertise in Go (Golang), distributed systems, and backend/network service development at scale
• Demonstrated experience architecting highly concurrent, distributed systems and exercising independent judgment on methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria, including Go's standard networking and cryptography libraries
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, network protocols, and API design (gRPC/Protobuf and/or RESTful APIs), with the ability to reason about tradeoffs across an entire system
• Experience with AWS (or another major cloud provider) and cloud-native deployment models at production scale
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to convey advanced technical concepts and persuade diverse stakeholders and audiences
• Proven ability to build formal working relationships and coordinate across multiple teams and functions
• Conceptual thinking skills sufficient to understand advanced technical issues and their broader implications for the business
• Demonstrated track record mentoring engineers and being recognized as a subject matter expert others turn to for guidance
• For this Job, Delinea is not considering candidates that need any type of US work authorization now or in the future. This includes, but is not limited to: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J1, etc
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) beyond a single provider
• Experience establishing or influencing engineering-wide standards for Terraform automation and CI/CD pipelines
• Deep expertise with secure protocols, mTLS and PKI, secrets management (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault), and credential brokering
• Familiarity with proxying database, SSH/RDP, Kubernetes, and HTTP traffic, and with building CLI or desktop client tooling
• Experience shaping Zero Trust architecture strategy, just-in-time access models, and policy-as-code (e.g., Cedar) at an organizational level