Principal Software Engineer (Auth0)

Join our team as a Principal Software Engineer at Auth0, where you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of identity and authentication. As part of a small team of engineers, you'll explore new products and features, implement proof of concepts, lead industry-wide efforts, and research market adjacencies. This is a hands-on role that also requires big-picture thinking. Enjoy benefits such as work-from-home opportunities, health and wellness support, financial benefits, and more.

• Implement proof of concepts and demos of new products, features or standard implementations in our products.
• Lead industry wide efforts and protocols (e.g. MCP, A2A) around identity with recommendations, samples, SDKs.
• Research market adjacencies to inform company strategy, m&a decisions and future investment ideas.
• Nice to have: can design and architect large scale distributed systems
• Have 4+ years of identity experience and working on cloud services
• You love to learn and are able to do so quickly
• Understand the cost implications of cloud systems you design
• You are able to work in a team environment, have good communication skills and understand the value of collaboration
• You have a talent to grok customer's needs and continuously iterate on your understanding of a problem space based on their feedback, industry trends and available technology
• You know how computers work and can apply that to solve hard problems, period
• Have 10+ years of software development experience
• You constantly strive to hit the right balance between simplicity and flexibility
• Have 3+ years of experience working in developer tooling or strong passion and demonstrable taste for it