Staff Software Engineer, Identity and Access Management

Owner is an AI-native system helping local business owners, starting with restaurants, manage and grow their businesses. The Staff Software Engineer will build and operate foundational identity and access systems, including authentication, authorization, permissions, service-to-service authentication, reliability, observability, and security. The role also involves collaborating across engineering, product, design, and security while helping build the team.

Responsibilities:

• Help build the foundation for secure access at Owner — design and improve the authentication and authorization systems that power every product surface across the platform
• Own critical auth infrastructure end to end — contribute to systems for login, sessions, token management, service-to-service auth, account security, and access enforcement
• Improve reliability and observability — instrument auth services with the alerting, dashboards, and runbooks needed to detect issues quickly and keep critical access flows healthy
• Raise the security bar — identify risks, improve controls, and help ensure authentication and authorization are designed thoughtfully from the beginning, not added as an afterthought
• Leverage AI tools to move faster — use AI tooling to accelerate your work, from writing and reviewing code to exploring solutions and automating repetitive tasks
• Help us build a great team — interview candidates, share technical context, and raise the bar for how we build

Requirements:

• This role is 100% remote and can be based anywhere in the United States or Canada
• 8+ years of experience building and shipping production backend systems, with a track record of owning critical services end to end — not just contributing to them
• Comfort with Typescript or Javascript — with deep experience in building web-scale applications
• Hands-on experience building authentication, authorization, identity, permissions, security, or similar platform infrastructure
• Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, databases, and operational reliability
• Strong sense of ownership and urgency — you don't wait for perfect requirements, you drive toward clarity and keep things moving