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Compensation
CA$ 145000 - 215000
CA$145K–215K
- Salary period
- yearly
- Location basis
- Canada
Tech stack
Required
Location
Toronto, Canada
Work setup
- Employment
- full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Remote scope
- unclear
Role details
Responsibilities
- Building low-latency token generation, validation, and introspection services
- Designing multi-tenant identity systems with strong tenant isolation
- Implementing OAuth 2.0 and OIDC flows across Kong products
- Developing dynamic claims engines and authorization capabilities
- Operating globally distributed authentication services with caching, replication, and edge optimization
- Building developer-facing APIs and SDKs
- Improving observability, security, and reliability of critical auth infrastructure
Requirements
- Experience building backend and distributed systems
- Experience with identity systems, OAuth, OIDC, JWTs, or authentication platforms is helpful but not required
Application
- Portfolio
- not required
- GitHub
- not required
- Cover letter
- not required
- Apply flow
- ats
Company context
- Product
- Kong Identity platform behind Konnect
Description
Staff Engineer on Kong's Identity team hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help build the identity platform behind Konnect. The team owns authentication and authorization services, OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect infrastructure, token issuance and validation, client credential management, claims generation, and the APIs that let customers automate identity workflows. Problems include low-latency token generation/validation/introspection, designing multi-tenant identity systems with strong tenant isolation, implementing OAuth 2.0 and OIDC flows across Kong products, developing dynamic claims engines and authorization capabilities, operating globally distributed authentication services with caching/replication/edge optimization, building developer-facing APIs and SDKs, and improving observability/security/reliability of critical auth infrastructure. Stack is primarily Go, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure. Looking for engineers with experience building backend and distributed systems; experience with identity systems, OAuth, OIDC, JWTs, or authentication platforms is helpful but not required. Job posting link provided.
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