Senior Software Engineer, Identity Platform

Senior Software Engineer, Identity Platform

United States

Engineering

Experienced Professional

Individual Contributor

Yes

5675

Full Time

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Job Description

About GitHub

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub’s Identity organization powers how developers and enterprises securely use GitHub. We’re responsible for authentication and authorization to apps and integrations. We build the core services that enable every user, team, and enterprise to access GitHub reliably, securely, and at scale. Our systems run at global scale and our mission is to make identity seamless and trustworthy for the next billion users.

We are looking for an experienced engineer to join GitHub’s Identity organization. This role is ideal for someone with deep expertise in identity and access management who can help shape the technical direction of GitHub’s identity platform.

Beyond building highly available distributed systems, you’ll bring industry perspectives to help evaluate emerging standards, guide architectural decisions, and identify opportunities that strengthen GitHub’s long-term identity strategy.

While the role includes hands-on backend development in Go and Ruby and front-end integrations, success in this role comes from combining strong engineering fundamentals with deep domain knowledge across modern identity systems.

Responsibilities

Design and implement backend services in Go (Golang) that power authentication, authorization, and GitHub Apps at global scale

Partner across engineering and product teams to solve complex identity challenges spanning user authentication, enterprise identity, applications, APIs, and machine identities.

Evaluate emerging identity technologies, protocols, and security patterns, identifying where they can improve GitHub's platform.

Design highly available, globally distributed services with a focus on security, resilience, and operational excellence.

Mentor engineers by sharing identity best practices and helping raise technical depth across the organization.

Participate in on-call rotations and continuously improve the reliability and operability of identity services.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

6+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python

OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python

OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python

OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python

OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Deep experience with modern identity standards such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML, SCIM, WebAuthn/Passkeys, FIDO2, SSH, JWT, DPoP, and related technologies.

Experience building identity infrastructure for enterprise, cloud, or developer platforms serving millions of users or high request volumes.

Strong understanding of Zero Trust architectures, workload identities, machine-to-machine authentication, and credential lifecycle management.

Experience evaluating and adopting emerging identity technologies and security standards.

Ability to influence technical strategy through architecture, RFCs, mentoring, and cross-organizational collaboration.

Experience contributing to or participating in identity standards bodies, open source identity projects, or developer ecosystems is a plus.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $124,000.00 - USD $329,200.00 /Yr.

• 4+ years software engineering experience with a relevant bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in languages like Go, Ruby, Java, Python, etc.
• Proven ability to maintain and deliver production software in a technical discipline such as Computer Science or Engineering.
• Deep expertise in identity and access management, including modern identity standards and distributed system design.