Senior Software Engineer, Smallstep

• Building and maintaining gRPC services and working with Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) for efficient, strongly-typed communication between services
• Operating and maintaining event based distributed systems
• Creating and maintaining secure container images with tools such as Docker or Podman
• Bonus points for experience with Kubernetes
• Bonus points for experience integrating with MDMs

Desirable

• We are a nimble deep-tech startup of seasoned experts
• We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a passion for building and maintaining integrations focused on enhancing the functionality of the Smallstep Device Identity Platform
• You’ll work with technologies such as Jamf, Intune, Wi-Fi/RADIUS, SaaS applications, ZTNA solutions, and identity providers like Okta, Entra ID, Workspace ONE, and Google Workspace — along with other systems of similar nature and function
• Our platform is built with Go for backend services, using gRPC and Protobuf for internal APIs
• We leverage PostgreSQL for data storage, Redis for caching, and River for job queues
• Our frontend is built with React and TypeScript
• We deploy on Kubernetes and manage infrastructure using Terraform
• For CI/CD, we use GitHub Actions
• Developing and maintaining complex network applications written in Go
• Instrumenting applications to collect metrics, traces, and logs with Open Telemetry
• Building applications that integrate with public APIs to enhance functionality within the Smallstep platform
• Creating and maintaining re-usable CI/CD workflows for software deployment, testing, and other automation using GitHub Actions