[Remote] Staff Software Development Engineer - SDM
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization. In this role as a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the technical direction of StrongDM’s platform, tackling complex engineering challenges while mentoring other engineers.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and technical direction of highly concurrent, distributed backend systems in Go (Golang), setting engineering standards that extend across multiple teams within StrongDM and Delinea
- Drive design decisions for the proxy data plane (gateways and relays) and control-plane services, evaluating tradeoffs on the platform’s most complex and ambiguous technical problems
- Partner with architects, product managers, and DevOps/SRE leadership to shape multi-quarter system roadmaps, translating broader business priorities into concrete technical strategy
- Serve as a subject matter expert on secure network protocols and cryptographic systems (TLS/mTLS, credential brokering, key management), guiding their application across the platform
- Lead code and design reviews across teams, holding a high bar for performance, security, and maintainability, and coach engineers on applying that bar independently
- Investigate and resolve the most challenging technical issues in distributed, multi-cloud production environments, often requiring evaluation of ambiguous or intangible tradeoffs
- Author and maintain architectural and technical strategy documentation that informs decisions beyond your immediate team
- Mentor engineers across the team and may direct the work of others, building the cross-team relationships that help align engineering execution with company objectives
Skills
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related technical discipline
- 8+ years of professional experience working as a software engineer, with deep expertise in Go (Golang), distributed systems, and backend/network service development at scale
- Demonstrated experience architecting highly concurrent, distributed systems and exercising independent judgment on methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria, including Go's standard networking and cryptography libraries
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, network protocols, and API design (gRPC/Protobuf and/or RESTful APIs), with the ability to reason about tradeoffs across an entire system
- Experience with AWS (or another major cloud provider) and cloud-native deployment models at production scale
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to convey advanced technical concepts and persuade diverse stakeholders and audiences
- Proven ability to build formal working relationships and coordinate across multiple teams and functions
- Conceptual thinking skills sufficient to understand advanced technical issues and their broader implications for the business
- Demonstrated track record mentoring engineers and being recognized as a subject matter expert others turn to for guidance
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) beyond a single provider
- Experience establishing or influencing engineering-wide standards for Terraform automation and CI/CD pipelines
- Deep expertise with secure protocols, mTLS and PKI, secrets management (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault), and credential brokering
- Familiarity with proxying database, SSH/RDP, Kubernetes, and HTTP traffic, and with building CLI or desktop client tooling
- Experience shaping Zero Trust architecture strategy, just-in-time access models, and policy-as-code (e.g., Cedar) at an organizational level
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Offers Bonus
- Healthcare insurance
- Pension/retirement matching
- Comprehensive life insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Time off plans
- Paid company holidays
- A meaningful bonus program
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