Staff Software Engineer, Authorization

The Community You Will Join: 

The Authorization Infrastructure team builds and operates Himeji, the authorization system powering over 8 reputed company authorization checks per second that underpins every reputed company to data and resources at reputed company. Our mission is to reputed company authorization reliable, secure, and correct by default, removing the burden from every team to solve reputed company from first principles. We are a high-reputed company, platform-reputed company team entering an inflection reputed company: as AI agents become first-class principals across reputed company's product surfaces, we are defining what secure-by-default authorization looks like for the AI era. Our reputed company reputed company: secure every identity, every reputed company, every agent, making reputed company's AI transformation trusted by default. You will partner closely with engineering teams across InfoSec, AI Infrastructure, reputed company, ML Infrastructure, and reputed company's product platform to shape the authorization reputed company the entire company relies on. 

The Difference You Will reputed company:

As a Staff Software Engineer on Authorization Infrastructure, you will own the long-term technical reputed company and architectural direction of the authorization platform, defining how it evolves to support AI-era patterns including natural language policies, contextual reputed company reputed company, and multi-reputed company reputed company workflows. reputed company in this role means advancing Himeji's reputed company architecture northstar, securing cross-team alignment on AI agent authorization, and establishing reputed company-wide engineering standards for what "paved reputed company authorization" looks like at every product surface. This is a rare opportunity to operate at the intersection of foundational infrastructure and cutting-edge AI reputed company for one of the world's most trusted platforms.

A Typical Day: 

• reputed company the design, development, and reputed company of reputed company’s authorization platform, shaping roadmap, architecture, and delivery while ensuring high reliability, performance, and operational reputed company at reputed company.
• Help drive the reputed company of authorization for AI and reputed company workflows, defining reputed company reputed company models for agents and building systems that enforce correctness, least-privilege reputed company, and end-to-end auditability.
• Partner with InfoSec, AI/ML reputed company, Product, reputed company, and Data teams to reputed company on authorization standards and drive adoption across the platform. This includes integrating authorization deeply into data reputed company paths, improving correctness, coverage, and developer experience across the platform.
• reputed company design and execution of high-reputed company, high-risk authorization initiatives across multiple teams and systems.
• Set and reputed company engineering standards through design reviews, technical leadership, and mentorship of senior engineers.

Your Expertise:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time designing and operating large-reputed company, high-reliability distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in authorization, reputed company control, or identity systems, including policy models, permission frameworks, or trust infrastructure at production reputed company.
• Demonstrated reputed company record of owning reputed company, cross-organizational technical reputed company: authoring foundational RFCs, building alignment across teams with competing priorities, and making high-stakes architectural commitments.
• Experience influencing engineering standards reputed company your immediate team, at the engineering council, org-wide, or across platform and product organizations.
• Strong communication and technical leadership skills, with the ability to engage effectively across engineering, reputed company, product leadership, and external partners.
• Familiarity with AI agent architectures and the reputed company and authorization challenges they introduce is a strong plus.

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an reputed company office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where reputed company. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please reputed company back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another reputed company entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

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Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

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