Principal Engineer; Golang

Starboard Recruitment, on behalf of our client, is searching for an experienced Principal Engineer.

Our client is a top-tier, venture-backed, Series-B, US-based tech startup with a team of experts in the Identity and Access Management space (IAM). Successful candidates will be highly experienced with Golang and ideally have a background within the security space.

Read below for further details. Apply today and our team will reach out to qualified candidates to discuss.

This is a technical leadership and hands‑on keyboard role where you are responsible for tackling big problems, driving technical approaches, and writing software to implement your great ideas. Your key responsibilities include:

• Regularly seeing features through from idea to fruition – including architecture and design, planning and scheduling, testing, development, and continuous integration and deployment
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform
• Collaborate with peer organizations, Dev Sec Ops  and directly with customers to solve their most challenging identity problems

• Expert‑level developer (10+ years of professional software development experience) – ideally experienced with or interested to learn Golang, Python, React.
• Microservices architecture with emphasis on high‑availability and high‑performance.
• SaaS/PaaS/IaaS and cloud development technologies such as AWS, Google Cloud, Docker, Cloud Distribution.
• “Identity” space experience such as OAuth, SAML, OIDC, or LDAP is strongly preferred.
• Security mindset – ideally experienced with identity, encryption, logs, compliance.

• Architecting and developing features, end‑to‑end on several projects
• Being a technical lead for a team of engineers

• Ideally the candidate will be based in the Vancouver BC area.
• The company has a distributed development team, so for the right candidate we can support remote work in North America.

• Test‑Driven Development
• Practical Agile software practices
• Working in a distributed/remote team