Senior Backend Engineer – Users Infrastructure

Job description

As the founding member of the Users Infrastructure team in India, you will architect the foundational security and identity substrate that every Weave product depends on. You will lead the transition from legacy authorization to a modern, globally distributed Identity and Access Management (IAM) platform powered by SpiceDB and Go. This is a high-leverage role requiring a blend of secure backend engineering and the leadership maturity to grow a new regional hub for a Tier-1 infrastructure unit. - This position will be remote - Reports to: Manager of Engineering - Users Infrastructure WHAT YOU WILL OWN - The Identity Lifecycle: You will own the core services responsible for authenticating every entity—human and machine—within the ecosystem. This includes managing the trade-offs between stateless scalability and real-time session revocation. - Authorization Strategy: You will be defining how fine-grained permissions are modeled, inherited, and enforced across a massive, multi-tenant hierarchy of organizations and locations. - The "Paved Road" for Developers: You will own the internal SDKs, gRPC contracts, and middleware that allow over 150+ downstream engineers to integrate security features into their products without needing to be cryptography experts. - Enterprise Integration Standards: You will manage the infrastructure that bridges our platform with the world, including federated identity (SSO), automated provisioning (SCIM), and secure machine-to-machine (M2M) communication protocols. - Operational Excellence: Improve system observability (MTTD/MTTR) by integrating monitoring and load-testing protocols into our Tier-1 services. - Systemic Integrity & Compliance: You are the guardian of the "Source of Truth." You will own the immutability and reliability of our audit logging pipelines and the consistency of identity data. - India Team Trajectory: As a founding member of the regional hub, you will own the technical bar and operational culture for the India-based arm of the team, ensuring seamless asynchronous collaboration with the US-based team members. WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO ACCOMPLISH THE JOB - Experience: 5+ years of backend engineering with significant time spent building distributed systems in Go. - Domain Expertise (in any or all of these areas): Deep understanding of AuthN/AuthZ primitives: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, and JWT mechanics. - System Design: Proven ability to manage complex data migrations, distributed architecture and build gRPC-based microservices. - Communication: Exceptional written clarity; the ability to write Technical Design Documents (TPDs) that bridge the gap between India and US-based stakeholders. WHAT WILL MAKE US LOVE YOU - The "Founding" Spirit: You have previously been an early member of a distributed team and understand how to build culture across time zones. - Security Mindset: You treat "Zero-Trust" as a default, not a buzzword, and have experience with Zanzibar-style authorization or SpiceDB. - Reliability Obsession: You don't just ship code; you ship alerts, dashboards, and runbooks (and you have a "stop-and-fix" mentality). Employment with Weave is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, conducted in accordance with applicable laws. At Weave, we use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to help us work more efficiently and create a smoother candidate experience. AI may assist with things like writing job descriptions, scheduling interviews, or reviewing applications against job-related criteria. For additional information, please review the External AI Policy Statement available on our Careers page. Weave is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals are valued and supported. We welcome anyone who is hungry to learn, problem-solve and progress regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. Beware of recruitment fraud. All official correspondence will occur through Weave branded email. We will never ask you to share bank account information, cash a check from us, or purchase software or equipment as part of your interview or hiring process.