Lead Product Security Engineer

The Massive Enterprise Identity Market

There is not a single large organization that doesn’t need what Strata has to offer. Identity security is a foundational technology that every company needs no matter what industry they are in. A great aspect of Strata is that you can call on virtually any name brand organization and be confident that someone in the organization needs what we offer. That’s why companies like Kroger, 3M, Publix, HEB, Cummins, Navy Federal Credit Union, State of Minnesota and the County of Dallas all chose to partner with Strata and solve their most pressing needs in identity.

Strata The Company

Strata is a venture-backed startup building the next generation of distributed identity management for the multi-cloud world. Led by a visionary team of serial entrepreneurs (with multiple exits) who created the first generation of Web identity management, the first IDaaS solution, co-authored SAML, and now are creating the Identity Orchestration market. 

This is truly a ground-floor opportunity for a Sales Development Representative that wants to have a hand in building the future of the multi-billion dollar, multi-cloud identity market.

The Team

At Strata, we built the team around a core culture of collaboration, authenticity, and respect. At Strata we have what we call the Maverics Spirit that is a mix of courage, confidence and grit that combines to reveal the best characteristics of our team. We invest heavily in company culture and celebrate our successes weekly while executing like no other team in the industry. 

The Product

Strata’s platform - Maverics - is identity middleware that connects identity infrastructure (Okta, Microsoft, Ping, AWS and others) with applications to modernize security and automate IT processes, all without requiring any rewriting of applications saving millions of dollars in measurable expenses.

Strata works closely with our partners at Microsoft Azure, Okta, AWS, GCP, and VMware to ensure interoperability through deep, native integrations. We build our software to be secure, scalable, and extensible; you help bring it to the world.

Secure. We take security seriously and build it into the core of what we develop and how we run our platform.

Scalable. Strata’s customers rely on our software to secure their core business operations, meaning we need to be available 99.999%.

Extensible. Strata built the Maverics platform for distributed identity management to support evolving use cases that our customers bring us. As such, we build our software to easily integrate with and manage many other identity infrastructure systems.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced software engineer to work on our distributed-identity orchestration platform, Maverics. You will join an engineering team that strongly believes in designing for security, reliability, and scale with diligent code reviews and the world’s first distributed identity orchestration platform.  

Our elite engineering team is fast, creative, and agile; with a rapid, agile release cycle and values autonomy and accountability. We expect great things from our engineers and reward you with stimulating new projects, emerging technologies, and the chance to significantly impact a company that is changing the identity management landscape forever. 

Responsibilities

• Use your deep understanding of system-level coding to build Strata’s Maverics identity orchestration platform.
• Participate and drive all stages of the SDLC using agile methods, pair programming, and test-driven development
• Work closely with Product and Design
• Collaborate with other engineers and teams to implement new features, improvements, and fixes to handle our current and future scale.
• Build and Run software following a DevSecOps model
• Evaluate new technologies and techniques to improve general practices
• Debug and resolve production issues and implement fixes.
• Instrument, monitor, and operate the code you write and services you build. This includes on-call rotations.
• Contribute to technical design and perform code reviews to ensure good engineering practices are being applied.
• Evaluate new technologies and techniques to improve overall practices.
• Contribute to key areas of large-scale Go-based Identity Management product development, being ready to lead where your expertise shines
• Work with professional services for successful deployments in customer environments
• Mentor and be mentored, coach and be coached, as part of a growing engineering team.
• Work in hybrid environment, with at least 3 days per week in our downtown Vancouver office

Traits

If you find yourself checking off most of the below, this could be the position for you!

• Take an agile, iterative approach to development, dividing long-term goals into incremental milestones.
• Enjoy being part of a highly collaborative, hybrid-friendly environment.
• Are self-directed, yet feel equally comfortable contributing in a team environment.
• Enjoy pair programming or are excited about the opportunity to practice it.
• Understand the value of test driven development and enjoy working in that style.
• Work well with technical and non-technical people to deliver high-value results.
• Adaptable and willing to apply your skills to help the team achieve its goals.
• Place a high value on security and reliability.
• Are a good communicator and enjoy interacting with people.
• Possess the desire to learn and curiosity to understand how and why things work.
• Share our company values: openness, honesty, transparency, accountability, integrity, empowerment

Experience - What You Bring

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Experience with system-level languages (GoLang, C, or Rust), Linux, networking, web, and app servers.
• 7+ years experience in software development and engineering for cloud-native or enterprise software company
• Solid experience with HTTP, Web application architectures, and cloud platforms.
• Experience designing and developing large-scale applications, including the design and implementation of modern web applications
• Grounding in modern software engineering practices and design patterns
• Solid understanding of the technical fundamentals of networking and cloud-based applications
• Understanding of enterprise identity infrastructure and core security concerns of cloud and on-premises environments 

Experience - Nice to Have, but not Required

• Experience with at least one identity standard like OAuth, SAML, OIDC, or LDAP
• Knowledge of cloud identity (AzureAD, Okta, Google, and AWS) and/or on-premises identity (SiteMinder, OAM, ClearTrust, Ping, ForgeRock)
• Experience with Test Driven Development and Pair Programming
• Our platform is written in GoLang. While experience with Go is preferred, it is not required as long as you are willing to learn it quickly.

It’s not expected that a single candidate has expertise in all these areas. We’re looking for professional engineers who can quickly learn and adapt as our systems and situation change rather than candidates with a rigid skill set.

What You Get

• Be part of a growing team building the future of identity orchestration
• Hybrid work environment with 3 days in the office. 
• Monthly wellness budget
• Option to contribute to 401(k) 
• Equity Incentive Plan
• Employer paid Health, Dental and Vision Insurance Plans, including FSA and HSA options
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) Policy