Software Engineer, Identity Manager

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core identity services for authentication, authorization, and user lifecycle management.
• Architect scalable, secure, high-throughput APIs and distributed systems across Splunk and Cisco products.
• Unify identity systems and serve as a subject matter expert on modern identity protocols and authorization models.
• Work across Go services and existing C++ components, including integrations and incremental modernization.
• Develop automated tests, debug complex production issues, improve observability, and provide production support.
• Contribute to performance profiling, incident response, secure-access auditing, session management, and policy enforcement.
• Collaborate with product, security, and infrastructure teams and explore AI/ML opportunities for identity automation and protection.

Requirements

• Strong, recent hands-on C++ and/or Go experience building secure, scalable, high-throughput production services.
• Experience designing and operating secure, distributed, fault-tolerant systems.
• Hands-on knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, token and session lifecycle management, RBAC, and ABAC.
• Strong automated-testing, debugging, observability, and production-support skills.
• Preferred: C++ experience diagnosing Splunkd or authentication-integration code.
• Preferred: experience with OAuth device-code flow, CLI authentication, Okta, service identities, secure production access, LDAP, KV Store, Kubernetes-based operations, E2E test pipelines, and production dashboards.