Staff Software Engineer, Domino Data Lab
Identity and Authorization
$250-280k
Enterprise AI platform
Open for applications
Enterprise AI platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$250-280k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To unleash AI to address the world's most important challenges.
Role
Who you are
- A track record of evolving an enterprise-grade authorization system under real production traffic, with strong opinions about the architecture of these systems
- Experience designing a new auth system and migrating to it from a legacy approach (a plus)
- Experience on a platform team supporting other services within a larger engineering organization
- A background at a company that builds authentication or authorization products (a plus)
- A concrete example of an auth system you helped build that solved a recurring class of customer challenges
- A history of helping teams become better engineers by improving designs, velocity, and quality
- Authorization systems: Hands-on experience with relationship-based or fine-grained authorization, including schema design (relations, permissions, caveats) and the tradeoffs versus traditional RBAC
- Identity protocols: Solid grounding in OIDC and SAML, and ideally experience with an IdP such as Keycloak, Auth0, Okta, or ForgeRock
- Cloud identity: Practical experience with workload identity patterns such as AWS IRSA, Azure Workload Identity, or GCP Workload Identity Federation
- Secrets management: Familiarity with a credential management system such as Vault
- Backend engineering: Strong Go, Java, or a comparable language, comfort running services on Kubernetes, and API design instincts from owning a platform others build on
- System architecture: Experience architecting auth frameworks that scale to enterprise customers
- AI-assisted development: Considered, real-world experience using AI coding tools while maintaining code quality and security rigor
- We value a growth mindset. High-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and see the opportunities for success
- We believe in individuals who seek truth and speak the truth and can be their whole selves at work
- We value all of you that believe improving is always possible At Domino Everything is a work in progress – we can do better at everything
- We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company
- We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply
What the job involves
- Domino’s Identity and Access platform (IDSM) is the foundation for how customers in some of the world’s most regulated industries manage who can see and do what. We’re evolving it into a centralized, relationship-based authorization framework built on SpiceDB, and you’d be the technical anchor for its next phase
- A unified authorization model. Extend a centralized, fine-grained, relationship-based model across the platform, replacing feature-specific permission checks with consistent, reusable primitives
- Production-grade operations. Harden the authorization layer for the scale, reliability, and security that enterprise and public-sector customers expect
- A thoughtful migration path. Make the sequencing and design calls that let us retire legacy access checks without disrupting customers along the way
- Groups and organizations that mirror real customers. Rethink how we model groups and organizational hierarchies so large enterprises can represent their teams the way they actually work
- Cloud-native identity. Deepen integration with cloud workload identity, starting with AWS IRSA and extending to Azure and GCP equivalents
- Foundations other teams build on. Design core identity and access capabilities, with clean interfaces and flexible abstractions, that engineers across the company can adopt with confidence
- A stronger way of building. Set the patterns for how the team uses AI-assisted development to ship high-quality features faster, without compromising security or code quality
- Set the architectural direction. Design identity and access solutions that meet customer demands for managing user and group access, and are secure, scalable, and built on primitives teams can reuse
- Bring clarity to complex decisions. Articulate the architecture clearly enough that the rest of Engineering can rally around it
- Be the go-to authority. Engineers and teams building on IDSM will bring their auth questions to you, and your technical judgment will carry real influence
- Raise the engineering bar. Lead design reviews, unblock engineers facing ambiguity, and champion flexible abstractions and well-thought-out interfaces
- Increase velocity and reduce maintenance. Improve our architecture, including removing tech debt, so the team ships faster with less ongoing maintenance
- Shape how we build with AI. Establish patterns for using AI-assisted development to deliver high-quality features faster without compromising security or rigor
- Foster ownership and urgency. Help the team know what to build and value both quality and speed of iteration and contribute to experiences that make identity and user management easier for the enterprises we serve
Our take
Domino Data Lab powers model-driven businesses with its Enterprise MLOps platform. Trusted by over 20% of the Fortune 100, Domino can accelerate the development and deployment of data science work, while simultaneously increasing collaboration and governance.
Using the platform, enterprises can develop better medicines, grow more productive crops, build better cars, and more. In 2022, it released two additional solutions that enable customers to easily run machine learning and data science workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud systems - showing that it can keep pace with the advancing needs of its clientele.
With nearly all multinational organizations set to invest in local data processing infrastructures and mitigation services by he end of 2026, Domino Data Lab is meeting the needs companies face when scaling data science workloads. It is also addressing the "data science talent gap" with its latest release, Domino Code Assist (DCA). This enables business analysts to elevate their work into the data science world and communicate with advanced data scientists in the same languages, without the need for extensive training.
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Insights
-16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2021
$100m
SERIES F
Jun 2020
$43m
LATE VC
Total funding: $226.6m
Company benefits
- Health & wellness: Premium medical, dental, and vision insurance plans, including a free option for you and your family
- Commuter benefits: What’s your transportation of choice? We support your daily commute, whether Uber, Lyft, bus, or train
- Love for parents: New parents receive up to eight weeks of fully paid-parental leave. P.S. Got baby pics? Share them in our Slack channel dedicated to kids
- Flexible paid time off: We value your right to disconnect. Take the time you need to recharge, spend time with family, and explore the world
- Annual education reimbursement: Pursue the professional growth that will help you excel in your role with educational opportunities that work for your needs, and at your speed
- Own your outcome: Feel supported to get your work done how and when you need to, regardless of your location
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Nick Elprin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Graduated from Harvard with a Master's in Computer Science. Previously worked as a Senior Application Technologist at Bridgewater Associates before co-founding Domino Data Lab in 2013.
Christopher Yang
(Co-Founder & CTO)Graduated from MIT with a Master's in Computer Science. Previously worked as a Software Developer at Bridgewater Associates before co-founding Domino Data Lab in 2013.
Thomas Robinson
(COO)Thomas joined Domino in 2016 as CPO, moving into the role of VP of Strategi Partnerships & Corporate Development in 2020 and then into the role of COO in 2022. Previously, he spent 10 years at Bridgewater Associated in various roles, including Director of Engineer and GM of Tech Talent Transformation.
Tom Gleason
(CFO)Prior to joining Domino in 2021, Tom was a VP of Finance & Strategy at Avalara. Before that, he spent 9 years at Tableau Software in various roles, including Director of Financial Planning & Analysis and VP of Finance.
Thomas Been
(CMO)Prior to joining Domino in 2023, Thomas was a CMO at DataStax and Druva. He also spent nearly 15 years at TIBCO Software in various roles, including VP of Product Management and CMO.
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