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Staff Software Development Engineer - SDM

Other • Principal • Remote • Full-time European Union U.S. Remote, EU/EMEA

A Staff Software Engineer on Delinea's StrongDM team shapes the technical direction of the proxy and control-plane architecture behind its universal access management platform, applying deep expertise across distributed systems, security and cloud architecture.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and technical direction of highly concurrent, distributed backend systems in Go, setting engineering standards across multiple teams
  • Drive design decisions for the proxy data plane (gateways and relays) and control-plane services, evaluating tradeoffs on the platform's most complex 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)
  • Lead code and design reviews across teams, holding a high bar for performance, security and maintainability
  • Investigate and resolve the most challenging technical issues in distributed, multi-cloud production environments
  • Author and maintain architectural and technical strategy documentation
  • Mentor engineers across the team and may direct the work of others

About the company

Delinea builds a cloud-native Identity Security Platform that secures human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, applying context throughout the identity lifecycle across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications and AI. It deploys in weeks, uses 90% fewer resources than the nearest competitor, and delivers 99.995% uptime.

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