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Our goal at JumpCloud is to Make (Remote) Work Happen with One Directory to Rule Them All!
The Role
The Senior Backend Software Engineer will implement features, mentor juniors, and work with backend technologies like Go and Kubernetes while ensuring scalability and security of identity services.
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All roles at JumpCloud are Remote unless otherwise specified in the Job Description.
About JumpCloud
JumpCloud® delivers a unified open directory platform that makes it easy to securely manage identities, devices, and access across your organization. With JumpCloud, IT teams and MSPs enable users to work securely from anywhere and manage their Windows, Apple, Linux, and Android devices from a single platform. JumpCloud is IT Simplified.
Do you enjoy solving challenging problems using the latest technologies within a great team? Is knowing your work will be highly visible and mission critical a key component for the next step in your career? At JumpCloud, we’re looking for best-in-class talent to help define the future of modern identity and device management from the ground up.
About the role:
JumpCloud is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join an engineering team focusing on backend technology like Kubernetes & GoLang with DevOps experience.
Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) services are a key part of the entire JumpCloud product portfolio. Along with our Authentication and Authorization services, IGA provides the foundation for our identity and security solutions, both cloud and device based. The IGA team’s work will make using JumpCloud even easier and more seamless, while providing a very high level of security.
What you’ll be doing:
- Feature implementation through both individual contributions and providing guidance in terms of organization, process and design.
- Our team primarily uses Go, although experience with other modern languages is fine.
- We collaborate closely with architects, UX, and DevOps to ensure our systems are highly available, scalable, performant, and deliver an amazing user experience.
- Championing a culture of quality by instrumenting our Go services for observability, creating actionable monitoring and alerts, and building comprehensive automated tests to ensure high performance and reliability.
- We use the scrum framework.
- Learning and working with cryptography and security concepts, including PKI and TLS/SSL agreement protocols, authentication, symmetric and asymmetric encryption, and related concepts. Bonus points if you have experience with these already.
- Using OAuth/OIDC flows to authenticate users and then allow them to use services.
- Integrate identity via certs, OAuth and other methods into cloud services like AWS API Gateway.
- Work with 3rd party applications like mesh VPNs to ensure that these applications work with JumpCloud provided identity.
- Shape the future of our Identity Management services roadmap by participating in planning/scoping conversations with product managers.
- Help the team and organization live by our core values: building connections, thinking big and getting 1% better every day.
We’re looking for:
- 5+ years experience developing distributed systems, microservices, and REST APIs (including using them as integration points with third-party applications) in a variety of programming languages including Golang.
- Experience using one of the public cloud providers (AWS, GCP or Azure) with CI/CD pipelines (Travis/CircleCI) to build, test and deploy.
- Willingness to mentor junior members of the team.
- Bonus points if you have experience with Python, Docker, feature flags, and BDD.
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Where you’ll be working/Location:
JumpCloud is committed to being Remote First, meaning that you are able to work remotely within the country noted in the Job Description.
You must be located in and authorized to work in the country noted in the job description to be considered for this role.
Please note: There is an expectation that our engineers participate in on-call shifts. You will be expected commit to being ready and able to respond during your assigned shift, so that alerts don't go unaddressed.
Language:
JumpCloud has teams in 15+ countries around the world and conducts our internal business in English. The interview and any additional screening process will take place primarily in English. To be considered for a role at JumpCloud, you will be required to speak and write in English fluently. Any additional language requirements will be included in the details of the job description.
Why JumpCloud?
If you thrive working in a fast, SaaS-based environment and you are passionate about solving challenging technical problems, we look forward to hearing from you! JumpCloud is an incredible place to share and grow your expertise! You’ll work with amazing talent across each department who are passionate about our mission. We’re out of the box thinkers, so your unique ideas and approaches for conceiving a product and/or feature will be welcome. You’ll have a voice in the organization as you work with a seasoned executive team, a supportive board and in a proven market that our customers are excited about.
One of JumpCloud's three core values is to “Build Connections.” To us that means creating " human connection with each other regardless of our backgrounds, orientations, geographies, religions, languages, gender, race, etc. We care deeply about the people that we work with and want to see everyone succeed." - Rajat Bhargava, CEO
Please submit your résumé and brief explanation about yourself and why you would be a good fit for JumpCloud. Please note JumpCloud is not accepting third party resumes at this time.
JumpCloud is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
Scam Notice:
Please be aware that there are individuals and organizations that may attempt to scam job seekers by offering fraudulent employment opportunities in the name of JumpCloud. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers. Please note that JumpCloud will never ask for any personal account information, such as credit card details or bank account numbers, during the recruitment process. Additionally, JumpCloud will never send you a check for any equipment prior to employment.
All communication related to interviews and offers from our recruiters and hiring managers will come from official company email addresses (@jumpcloud.com) and will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid or purchases to be made by the job seeker. If you are contacted by anyone claiming to represent JumpCloud and you are unsure of their authenticity, please do not provide any personal/financial information and contact us immediately at [email protected] with the subject line "Scam Notice"
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Top Skills
AWS
Ci/Cd
Docker
Go
Kubernetes
Oauth
Pki
Python
Ssl
Tls
What the Team is Saying
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VP of People
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Manager, Learning and Development
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Manager, People Attraction
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The Company
What We Do
JumpCloud’s mission is to Make Work Happen®, providing simple, secure access to an organization’s technology resources from any device, or any location. The JumpCloud Open Directory Platform gives IT, security operations, and DevOps a single, cloud-based solution to control and manage employee identities and their devices, and apply conditional access controls based on Zero Trust principals. Since launching in 2012, our global user base has grown to more than 150,000 organizations, with more than 5,000 paying customers including Cars.com, GoFundMe, Grab, ClassPass, Uplight and Peloton. JumpCloud has raised over $400M from world-class investors including Sapphire Ventures, General Atlantic, Sands Capital, Atlassian, and CrowdStrike. Our teams are growing fast, too, and we're looking for talent across engineering, sales, customer success, marketing, product management, and more. Join our team of dedicated, passionate, and creative people who are eager to change the IT industry forever.
We live by our core values which are:
Build Connections
Think Big
1% Better Every Day
Why Work With Us
We offer an incredible opportunity to see your impact. Each team member gets an up close personal view and education into building a fast growing startup. We are transparent about what we are doing, how we are doing it, and the decisions that we are making. There is opportunity to progress and flexibility to find unique approaches to our business
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Remote Workspace
Employees work remotely.
JumpCloud is committed to being remote-first across the world. We have team members in most U.S. states and in 14 countries.
Typical time on-site:
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