Staff Software Engineer

Description:

Our Identity and Access Management (IAM) engineering teams design and build elegant platform capabilities that power multi-tenant experiences across our entire product suite. IAM is central to Sprout’s technical strategy. It enables major R&D investments, including our integration ecosystem and AI agent actions via Sprout’s MCP servers.

Beyond these strategic unlocks, IAM ensures Sprout’s customers can manage user access in fast-moving environments that evolve at the pace of social. Our work amplifies the impact of every Engineering team, and we’re looking for leaders who can elevate others while diving deep into complex technical challenges to deliver solutions that are simple, intuitive, and built to scale.
 

• Own the technical execution of our IAM vision. You will be the lead designer and builder for new, scalable access control solutions that will be used by all of Sprout's Product teams.
• Architect and build our next-generation, multi-tenant authorization control plane, designed to manage access across a variety of products, types of principals, and jobs-to-be-done.
• Scale our authorization data plane to scale to billions of requests daily while remaining intuitive and approachable to engineers across the organization.
• Be the engineer accountable for service-level outcomes. You will write the code and set the standards that ensure our core access services are highly available, low-latency, and secure.
• Design and ship the platform-level IAM patterns, libraries, and tools that will multiply the effectiveness of our entire R&D organization.

What You’ll Bring We are looking for a Staff Engineer who leads through craft. Your primary motivation is delivering customer outcomes by solving hard technical problems with simple solutions, and you're not afraid to be hands-on to get it done. You're a pragmatic leader who mentors others through your code and design, and you're driven to build high-quality, high-scale platforms that make every engineer around you better. If you thrive on technical ownership and want to build the systems that secure a platform at our scale, we want to talk to you!

The minimum qualifications for this role include:
 

• 10+ years experience developing and supporting software in a production environment
• 5+ years experience programming in an object oriented language such as Java, Python, C# or C++
• 3+ years experience leading engineering projects and initiatives, including the design, development, and implementation of distributed systems, ensuring delivery of reliable services, prioritizing technical improvements with cross-functional teams, and/or driving technical vision.