Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer, Identity & Auth Engineering in Canada Creek, Nova Scotia at Jobgether

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer, Identity & Auth Engineering in Canada.

In this role, you will help shape and evolve the core Identity and Authentication platform powering a large-scale, multi-product ecosystem. You will work on foundational distributed systems that ensure secure, reliable, and scalable access across services used by millions of users globally. The environment is highly collaborative, with close partnerships across product engineering, infrastructure, and security teams. You will contribute to re-architecting identity systems to support long-term platform evolution, including authentication, authorization, and access control at scale. This is a high-impact engineering role where your work directly influences platform security, developer experience, and system reliability. You will also play a key role in guiding technical direction, mentoring engineers, and improving system design practices across teams.

• Design, build, and evolve large-scale identity and authentication infrastructure supporting high-throughput distributed systems.
• Collaborate with product and platform engineering teams to deliver scalable identity solutions that meet diverse internal use cases.
• Lead architectural improvements including API design, system reliability, phased migrations, and persistent storage strategies.
• Ensure operational excellence through monitoring, incident response readiness, and participation in on-call rotations when applicable.
• Mentor junior engineers, contribute to technical decision-making, and support a strong engineering culture focused on collaboration and inclusion.
• Drive alignment between technical implementation, platform strategy, and long-term business objectives.

• 8+ years of software engineering or related industry experience in large-scale systems environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience in engineering disciplines).
• Proven experience working on high-QPS production systems and distributed platform services.
• Strong background in designing and delivering system-level roadmaps for large-scale infrastructure.
• Experience with identity and authentication standards such as OAuth, SSO, OIDC, SAML, MFA, and RBAC is strongly preferred.
• Proficiency in backend development, with exposure to languages such as Python and Go considered an advantage.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across multiple engineering teams effectively.

• Competitive compensation ranging from 190,400 to 257,600 CAD annually.
• Remote-friendly work model within Canada with flexibility depending on team structure.
• Opportunity to work on large-scale, mission-critical identity infrastructure.
• Collaborative and inclusive engineering culture with strong mentorship opportunities.
• Exposure to complex distributed systems and high-impact technical challenges.
• Participation in on-call rotations for operational ownership and system reliability experience.