As a Software Engineer II on the Cloud LDAP team, you will build, scale, and operate JumpCloud’s LDAP-as-a-Service: the systems that let customers authenticate and look up users and groups over LDAP against the JumpCloud directory.
You will work with a globally distributed engineering team on high-availability LDAP infrastructure—protocol handling, directory sync, replication, and edge serving—primarily on our Go, Python, and/or Node.js backend stacks. This role is LDAP development. You will implement and maintain LDAP protocol behavior, directory data pipelines, and the services in front of our OpenLDAP clusters, and you will use AI-assisted development tools ( Cursor, Gemini, Claude etc) to ship high-quality code faster.
What You Will Do:
- What You Will Do
LDAP platform development: Design, implement, test, and deploy scalable, secure services that power Cloud LDAP, including protocol proxies, sync workers, and supporting APIs.
Protocol & directory behavior: Own backend work for LDAP operations customers rely on—bind (including MFA-aware bind flows), search, compare, and related directory semantics (DNs, filters, attributes, schemas, ACLs).
Sync, replication, and availability: Contribute to how directory changes flow into LDAP (async create/update/delete), how data is replicated to regional read replicas, and how the service stays available under load and during failover.
Edge & proxy services: Work on the LDAP request path (load balancing, connection limits, TLS/STARTTLS, eventing/observability, password handling, and related edge protections).
AI-driven efficiency: Use AI coding assistants to generate code, write solid automated tests, and speed up debugging—without skipping review or operational rigor.
Cloud infrastructure: Run containerized services with Docker and Kubernetes and operate cloud-native components on AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, and related services).
Quality & automation: Add automated tests for new LDAP features and legacy paths, and use CI/CD to keep quality gates in place.
Collaborative engineering: Partner with product and senior engineers across time zones on requirements, feasibility, and thorough code reviews. Participate in on-call for production LDAP alerts.
What We’re Looking For:
Experience: 3–5 years of professional software development, with a strong emphasis on backend systems, networked services, and APIs.
Core technical stack: Proficiency in Go, C++, Node.js, and/or Python.
LDAP & directory foundations: Solid understanding of LDAP (or a closely related directory protocol). Comfort with bind/search, DNs, filters, schemas, TLS/STARTTLS, and how applications (Linux, NAS, custom clients, Samba, and similar) consume LDAP. OpenLDAP, 389 Directory Server, Active Directory LDAP, or similar experience is a strong plus.
Distributed systems: Practical experience with high-availability services, messaging/queues, replication, or proxy/load-balancer request paths.
Cloud & DevOps basics: Experience deploying on AWS and a working understanding of Kubernetes and/or Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform).
AI tool fluent: Demonstrated use of AI coding assistants to increase velocity, find bugs, and improve code quality.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Experience with OpenLDAP overlays, replication (provider/consumer), or LDAP proxy/middleware.
Familiarity with directory sync from an identity source of truth, service meshes, or HAProxy/Consul-style service discovery.
Comfort debugging protocol-level issues with tools such as ldapsearch, packet captures, or server logs.
Skills Required
- 3-5 years professional experience in software development with backend systems and API development
- Proficiency in Go, Node.js, and/or Python
- Solid understanding of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
- Practical experience deploying software on AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB)
- Functional understanding of container orchestration (Kubernetes) or Infrastructure as Code concepts (Terraform)
- Experience with containerization and cloud-native tooling (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Demonstrated experience using AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor)
- Experience designing automated tests and working with CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to participate in on-call rotations and respond to production alerts
- Fluent spoken and written English
What the Team is Saying
JumpCloud Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — U.S. offerings include day-one medical, dental, and vision coverage plus HSA options, EAP mental-health support, and medical travel where applicable, signaling a robust core health package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible or unlimited PTO, paid sick time, holidays, and highlighted parental leave point to wide-ranging time-off provisions that support work-life needs.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave and U.S. dependent care FSA are emphasized, indicating targeted support for families alongside remote-first flexibility.
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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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