Staff Backend Engineer - Foundations - safetyculture

THE ROLE

Our mission and your opportunity are to help solve the challenges faced in an increasingly distributed workforce by building the platform that powers how teams work safely and productively every day.

We empower engineers to learn new skills and use technology - including IoT, machine learning, and event-driven architectures - to solve real customer problems.

As a Staff Engineer in the Foundations Group, this role is responsible for the user and organisation management systems the rest of the platform is built on – how a user is created, identified, authenticated, organised and managed at scale. They set the architecture, define the canonical user and organisation data model, and lead the migration off legacy services without disruption to customers.

By partnering closely with product and engineering teams across the platform, they reduce fragmentation, make secure and standards-based patterns the default, and lift the ceiling on the size of organisation SafetyCulture can serve.

You’ll face exciting technical challenges as we scale, and be an integral part of high-performing teams that own their services end-to-end and are trusted to run systems that serve hundreds of thousands of users today, millions in the near future. You’ll work with a modern

tech stack

including Golang and Node.js on the backend, identity and access technologies such as Auth0, OpenID Connect and SAML, AWS, Kafka and Kubernetes for infrastructure, OpenSearch for search, and datastores such as DynamoDB and PostgreSQL.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Architect, build, and operate large-scale SaaS and cloud services, including distributed systems, data stores, and event-driven components.
• Own the architecture for core user management – user lifecycle, organisation and membership structures, provisioning, and authentication flows such as login, signup, multi-factor authentication and single sign-on (SSO) – and set the standards other teams build on.
• Define the canonical user and organisation data model, resolving fragmentation that today slows the delivery of every user-dependent feature.
• Lead safe, incremental migration off legacy user and identity services, with backward compatibility and staged cutover rather than big-bang releases.
• Identify and facilitate architectural decisions within a team or tribe and communicate them clearly.
• Champion and communicate our technology strategy, connecting engineering decisions to real customer and business value.
• Own delivery of complex features and systems - breaking down

requirements

, providing realistic estimates, and ensuring safe, repeatable releases.