The Problem Statement: The Invisible Identity Perimeter
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 Staff Software Engineer, you are a founding member of our newly formed ISPM team, playing a pivotal role in shaping a proactive, AI-driven security discipline from the ground up. You will lead the "zero-to-one" journey, defining how we use high-scale stream processing to protect thousands of organizations.
You will be responsible for driving the ISPM feature set end-to-end—from strategic planning and platform architecture to hands-on development and operational excellence. This is a unique opportunity for an ambitious engineer to build the "pipes" and the "logic" that will redefine the security posture of the modern workforce while building a platform that accelerates product development across the entire company.
We’re looking for:
10-12+ 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.
Security & Identity: Exposure to authentication standards (OAuth, OIDC, SAML) or experience building logic for Fraud/Risk engines. Proficiency in Identity risk posture management concepts and developing such solutions.
Bonus Points:
- SOC / SIEM Empathy: Experience building tools for Security Operations Centers. You understand concepts like "False Positive Fatigue," "Triage," and "Incident Context.
- Integrations: Experience integrating with third-party threat feeds (e.g., GeoIP, IP Reputation).
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Skills Required
- 10-12+ years of backend software development experience
- Expert Proficiency in Go (Golang)
- Proven experience building systems that consume and produce messages via Kafka, Kinesis, or SQS
- Experience with Apache Flink or Spark Streaming
- Experience modeling data in both Relational (Postgres) and NoSQL (Redis/DynamoDB) stores
- Deep experience with AWS services (Lambda, ECS/EKS) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
- Exposure to authentication standards (OAuth, OIDC, SAML)
- Experience building logic for Fraud/Risk engines
What the Team is Saying
JumpCloud Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage starts day one in the U.S., includes dental/vision and mental-health support, and offers an HSA option with employer contributions. Expanded medical travel coverage, abortion travel benefits in the U.S., an EAP, and a Calm subscription further strengthen healthcare support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible or “unlimited” PTO, paid holidays and sick days, and generous parental and family medical leave are highlighted across materials. Remote-first norms and wellness programs are also documented.
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Retirement Support — A U.S. 401(k) plan with a company match (50% up to 6% of pay) is offered alongside life and disability insurance. Access to a personal financial consultant and country-specific pension programs are also noted.
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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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