The Access Software Engineer will develop a Zero Trust platform focusing on user identity and trust for secure application access within a global edge network.
Available Location: Austin, Texas
What you'll do
In this role you'll help us build Access, a Zero Trust platform that secures self-hosted and SaaS applications by aggregating sources of user identity and trust, and enforcing rules on every request or login. As an engineer on the Access team, you will focus on our high-performance global edge network services that build those identities and enforce those rules. You will also contribute to the control plane API's that configure those edge services. You will be joining a global team of bright, hard-working, and supportive engineers who really care about their craft.
Technologies we use:
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience:
What you'll do
In this role you'll help us build Access, a Zero Trust platform that secures self-hosted and SaaS applications by aggregating sources of user identity and trust, and enforcing rules on every request or login. As an engineer on the Access team, you will focus on our high-performance global edge network services that build those identities and enforce those rules. You will also contribute to the control plane API's that configure those edge services. You will be joining a global team of bright, hard-working, and supportive engineers who really care about their craft.
Technologies we use:
- Access core edge services are written in Typescript and Rust and are deployed globally to 200+ data centers
- Our REST API is written in Go, runs on Kubernetes, and uses Postgres as a data store.
- Our frontend is written in Typescript and React.
- For service monitoring we use Prometheus and Grafana.
- For service logging we use Elasticsearch and Kibana.
- For product analytics we use Clickhouse and BigQuery.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience:
- Programming experience in Go and Typescript/Javascript.
- Basic understanding of software security and encryption
- Experience in designing and implementing secure and highly-available distributed systems
- Willingness, curiosity, and enthusiasm to learn new programming languages, technologies and systems
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Caring and empathy are coveted traits here!
Top Skills
BigQuery
Clickhouse
Elasticsearch
Go
Grafana
Kibana
Kubernetes
Postgres
Prometheus
React
Rust
Typescript
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