As a Sr Software Engineer, you will lead and oversee the software engineering function for Pattern’s central administrative, authentication, authorization, and security infrastructure. In this role, you will serve as a key technical leader for our mission-critical identity and access platform, partnering with other engineering leaders and cross-functional teams to ensure its success. Because this core system underpins all of Pattern's operations, you will partner closely with a wide variety of cross-functional teams to field, prioritize, and build a high volume of feature requests while ensuring the ongoing maintenance, stability, and high performance of existing applications.
What is a day in the life of a Sr Software Engineer (IAM)?
Maintain, scale, and optimize existing central authentication and authorization applications.
Triage, scope, and build incoming feature requests from cross-functional teams across Pattern.
Write, test, and deploy clean back-end code using Ruby and Go.
Design and enforce fine-grained RBAC across internal platforms and external APIs.
Collaborate with engineers and product stakeholders to integrate core security services.
Automate admin workflows and integrate AI solutions to enhance operational efficiency.
Monitor performance, reduce technical debt, and ensure high system availability.
What will I need to thrive in this role?
3+ years of back-end software engineering experience focused on core security, identity, or platform systems.
Proven experience building and maintaining central Authentication and Authorization systems.
Direct experience with RBAC/ABAC frameworks and security protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT).
Strong capability to manage competing feature requests from multiple internal teams while maintaining legacy codebases.
Solid background with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and REST/gRPC APIs.
What does high performance look like?
You are seen and trusted as a primary subject matter expert and partner for central Auth/Authz and admin tooling across all of Pattern.
You strike an effective balance between rapidly delivering requested features for partner teams and systematically maintaining/refactoring existing applications to ensure system stability and reliability while preventing technical debt.
You communicate proactively with cross-functional stakeholders, setting realistic timelines and clear integration pathways for their feature requests.
You ensure our central Auth system is fault-tolerant, sub-millisecond in performance, and seamlessly adopted by all internal applications and external platforms.
You effectively delegate and monitor repeatable, task-focused feature and maintenance work with junior engineers, optimizing your time across both strategy and execution.
What is the team like?
Sounds great! What’s the company culture?
Game Changers: A game changer is someone who looks at problems with an open mind and shares new ideas with team members, regularly reassesses existing plans and attaches a realistic timeline to goals, makes profitable, productive, and innovative contributions, and actively pursues improvements to Pattern’s processes and outcomes.
Data Fanatics: A data fanatic is someone who recognizes problems and seeks to understand them through data, draws unbiased conclusions based on data that lead to actionable solutions, and continues to track the effects of the solutions using data.
Partner Obsessed: An individual who is partner obsessed clearly explains the status of projects to partners and relies on constructive feedback, actively listens to partner’s expectations and delivers results that exceed them, prioritizes the needs of your partners, and takes the time to create a personable experience for those interacting with Pattern.
Team of Doers: Someone who is a part of a team of doers uplifts team members and recognizes their specific contributions, takes initiative to help in any circumstance, actively contributes to supporting improvements, and holds themselves accountable to the team as well as to partners.
What is the hiring process?
An initial phone interview with Pattern’s talent acquisition team
A technical assessment
An onsite interview with a panel of department leaders
Reference checks
Executive review
Skills Required
- 3+ years back-end software engineering experience focused on core security, identity, or platform systems.
- Proven experience building and maintaining central Authentication and Authorization systems.
- Direct experience with RBAC/ABAC frameworks and security protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT).
- Experience writing, testing, and deploying backend code in Ruby and Go.
- Solid background with relational databases (PostgreSQL).
- Experience building and maintaining REST and gRPC APIs.
- Ability to manage competing feature requests and maintain legacy codebases.
Pattern Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is broadly offered and described as generous, with RSU sharing and access to stock included in total compensation. Equity availability is positioned as a core element for employees across the company.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO, paid holidays, paid parental leave, and paid sick days indicate a wide-ranging time-off policy. These offerings create breadth for both vacation needs and family-related leave.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a fully vested company match from day one (up to 4%) strengthens long-term financial security. Immediate vesting underscores emphasis on retirement benefits.
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