The Team:
Our team provides a scalable identity management infrastructure to support enterprise-grade authentication/authorization. We enable customers to access the right resources when needed while keeping them safe.
Our team mainly owns Celonis’s identity provider, user management, and API gateway services and we evolve those in three different areas:
Secure the system which includes upgrading our technology to well-proven standards (e.g. OAuth 2.0), making sure our systems are performant, reliable, and available. Our service is at the core of our product, without it, customers cannot use EMS at all.
Making it easier for customers to get started, for example, through different solutions like Single Sign-On (via SAML or OIDC) or programmatic user provisioning and de-provisioning (via SAML-JIT or SCIM).
Enabling new use cases, that are not possible without early infrastructure developments and changes (e.g. modernizing authorization and authentication to allow modern permission systems).
The work you’ll do:

• Mentorship: you will need to build a strong relationship and understand the needs of the engineers around you. By sharing your experience and advice, you will help them to grow and advance on our engineer's ladder.
• Source of truth: you will need to resolve doubts and suggest approaches for other engineers in the team, related to specific frameworks, define algorithms, design patterns, and best practices.
• Providing engineering perspective: bring the engineering context and perspective into a product or company decision.
• Exploration: be able to organize the work to explore different future approaches while succeeding on already scoped tasks.
• Being Glue: doing the needed, but often invisible, tasks to keep the team moving forward and shipping its work.
• Write code: help to implement your decisions and establish good practices for the whole of the team.

The qualifications you need:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in a technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Software Engineering) or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of software engineering experience and performing similar roles.
• 6+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer using Java
• Experience on identity providers, user management, and API gateway services
• Proven experience in building and running cloud-native distributed systems.
• Able to demonstrate good skills across multiple technical areas besides the Backend, such as Dev Ops, Cloud Infrastructure
• Ability to analyze and design complex software.
• Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Proven background in building cloud-native software in the Kubernetes ecosystem
• Deep understanding of modern engineering practices (Git strategy, CI/CD, testing, …)
• Problem-first attitude: you’re able to understand the needs of our customers and see technology as a means to an end, not an end in itself.
• Ability to quickly learn new things without tight supervision.
• Problem-solving attitude.
• Collaborative team spirit.
• Fluent in English.