Modern enterprises no longer have a physical perimeter; identity is the new boundary. However, this boundary is currently fragmented, opaque, and highly volatile. IT Admins today are drowning in "Identity Debt"—stale accounts, over-privileged permissions, and hidden misconfigurations that remain invisible until they are exploited.
The industry is reactive. At JumpCloud, we believe security should be proactive. The challenge is to build a platform that doesn't just manage identities but actively audits, predicts, and remediates risks across millions of objects in real-time. We need to turn "Trust Nothing, Verify Everything" from a slogan into a high-scale, event-driven reality
The Opportunity: Founding the ISPM Platform
As a Senior Software Engineer for our newly formed Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) team, you will play a foundational role in building a proactive, AI-driven security discipline from the ground up. You are a master of your craft in Go, capable of navigating complex event-driven architectures and ensuring our stream-processing pipelines are both resilient and performant.
You will own the execution of critical ISPM workstreams, turning high-level designs into robust, production-ready code while mentoring mid-level engineers on best practices.
What you’ll be doing:
- Technical Leadership & Architecture: Lead the high-level architecture and low-level design of new Go microservices. You will break down complex requirements, mentor other engineers, and collaborate with senior technical leaders to manage technical debt and feature detailing.
- Build and Launch Foundational ISPM Services: Within the first 6–12 months, design, code, test, and deploy the initial full-stack services for the new ISPM product to the production environment, ensuring high performance and stability.
- Deliver Core Security Features: Collaborate closely with Product and UX teams to define and deliver the first iterations of features that identify misconfigurations, over-privileged accounts, and stale identities.
- Establish Operational Excellence: Take ownership of the deployment lifecycle by establishing robust CI/CD pipelines and comprehensive health monitoring/telemetry strategies for the newly built services.
- Prepare the Runway for ML: Utilise Machine learning concepts to harness the inhouse data to build solutions for IT Admins.
- Strategy & Collaboration: Partner with the Platform Engineering team to define data contracts. You will help shape the future of our Identity Management services roadmap by participating in planning conversations with Product Managers
We’re looking for:
6-8+ years of backend software development experience.
Expert Proficiency in Go (Golang): You understand concurrency patterns, memory management, and how to build services that scale.
Event-Driven Architecture: Proven experience building systems that consume and produce messages via Kafka, Kinesis, or SQS.
Stream Processing: Experience with Apache Flink or Spark Streaming.
Database Fluency: Experience modeling data in both Relational (Postgres) and NoSQL (Redis/DynamoDB) stores.
Cloud Native: Deep experience with AWS services (Lambda, ECS/EKS) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
ML Infrastructure Interest: You don't need to be a Data Scientist, but you have a working interest in MLOps or Model Serving. You are excited about building the "pipes" that put ML models into production.
Distributed Systems Expertise: building scalable, fault tolerant systems handling large data sets
Bonus Points:
- Prior experience with Security/Risk Posture Management tools.
- SOC / SIEM Empathy: Experience building tools for Security Operations Centers. You understand concepts like "False Positive Fatigue," "Triage," and "Incident Context."
- Security & Identity: Exposure to authentication standards (OAuth, OIDC, SAML) or experience building logic for Fraud/Risk engines.
- Integrations: Experience integrating with third-party threat feeds (e.g., GeoIP, IP Reputation)
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Skills Required
- 6-8+ years of backend software development experience.
- Expert Proficiency in Go (Golang)
- Proven experience with Event-Driven Architecture
- Experience with Stream Processing: Apache Flink or Spark Streaming
- Experience modeling data in both Relational (Postgres) and NoSQL (Redis/DynamoDB) stores
- Deep experience with AWS services and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
- Interest in MLOps or Model Serving
- Expertise in building scalable, fault tolerant distributed systems
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Healthcare Strength — U.S. employees get day‑one medical, dental, and vision coverage, with EAP/mental‑health support and an HSA option with employer contributions. Coverage also includes medical travel when appropriate care isn’t available within 100 miles.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match at 50% up to 6% in the U.S. is offered. UK pension contributions are also listed.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible or unlimited PTO, paid sick time, and parental leave are highlighted across materials within a remote‑first culture. Family medical leave and wellness days are also cited in some locations.
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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
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