Intermediate Backend Engineer, Authorization

About the role

As an Intermediate Backend Engineer specializing in Authorization, you will contribute to building and maintaining the systems that control access to applications, data, and services across a large-scale DevSecOps platform. You will work on critical authorization infrastructure, ensuring that users, access tokens, and automated agents have the appropriate permissions while maintaining high standards of security and performance.

What you'll do

• Implement authorization features and improvements within a Ruby on Rails monolithic application
• Deliver well-defined engineering projects, from feature-flagged implementation and rollout to validation of results, with guidance and code reviews from senior engineers
• Develop and extend fine-grained permission models for access tokens and custom roles, expanding authorization coverage across additional resources
• Improve authorization enforcement across GraphQL and REST APIs to ensure consistent application of permission rules
• Refactor existing policy code incrementally while preserving established behavior and avoiding disruptions for existing customers

What you need

• PostgreSQL
• Ruby
• REST APIs
• GraphQL
• gRPC
• Rust