Senior Software Engineer

Ready to take your next steps within a truly industry leading provider of cutting-edge content protection and digital rights management products? This role focuses on designing, building, and operating secure, scalable backend services on AWS. You’ll work on cloud-native and serverless systems that support authentication, authorization, and service integration in distributed, always-on environments. The role emphasizes strong backend engineering fundamentals, cloud architecture, and identity systems, with flexibility around specific implementation languages.

What You’ll Do

Day-to-day

• Design, build, and maintain cloud backend services on AWS
• Develop and operate distributed, cloud-native and serverless systems
• Implement and integrate authentication and authorization flows, including SSO
• Collaborate with product and engineering partners on requirements and technical design
• Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, and code reviews
• Build services with a focus on scalability, performance, reliability, and security
• Deploy and operate services using automated CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code
• Own backend services throughout their lifecycle, from design to production
• Improve system reliability, security posture, and operational practices
• Drive technical improvements to platforms, processes, and internal tooling
• Work effectively with distributed, international teams

What You’ll Bring

Experience

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong background in backend, object-oriented development
• Experience building and operating production systems on AWS
• Proven experience designing scalable, resilient cloud services

Technical skills

• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language (e.g. Python, Java, Node.js)
• Hands-on experience with AWS services and serverless architectures
• Experience with authentication and authorization technologies, including SSO, OAuth 2.0, and SAML
• Familiarity with federated identity providers and SSO concepts
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases
• Knowledge of microservices, containers, and infrastructure-as-code
• Solid understanding of Linux environments and distributed system performance

Nice to have

• Experience with Python in backend or cloud environments
• Knowledge of cloud and application security practices
• Familiarity with identity, cryptography, or content protection domains