Lead Software Engineer

About the role

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. In this role, you will own the technical vision and execution for critical Identity and Access Management services within our new EMEA Public Cloud Engineering organization. You will partner with a ground-level team to define technical direction, engineering culture, and operational excellence from the outset. The position requires you to design and implement platform services that span Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. You will apply advanced engineering judgment to ensure secure, high-quality production code regardless of its origin. This role empowers you to lead communities of practice and foster a culture of continuous improvement and shared learning. You will mentor engineers and guide system-level design as a core technical contributor on the platform. Ultimately, you will help raise the bar for technical excellence while enabling trusted technology products in a secure and scalable manner.

Key facts

What you'll do

Lead the design and implementation of platform services and infrastructure with an emphasis on architecture, integration patterns, and system reliability. Develop, review, debug, and maintain secure, high-quality production code, applying engineering judgment to ensure it meets our standards regardless of whether it originates from you, a teammate, or an approved artificial intelligence tool. Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability across applications and systems. Lead design reviews and architecture discussions to evaluate solutions, strengthen technical quality, and support scalable delivery. Partner with platform architecture, trust and authorization teams, and downstream IAM consumers to land coherent designs across organizational seams. Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to increase awareness and adoption of new and leading-edge technologies. Mentor and coach engineers through technical guidance to build capability and performance within the team. Foster a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, respect, continuous improvement, and shared learning. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to align on roadmap priorities and delivery outcomes. Drive the adoption of automation and continuous delivery methods to accelerate safe and predictable releases. Evaluate emerging tools and frameworks to determine their applicability and value to our platform strategy. Champion reliability, security, and performance best practices across all engineering activities. Contribute to incident response and post-incident reviews to drive long-term improvements. Translate complex technical concepts into clear narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience. Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability. Experience with Identity and Access Management platforms, role-based access control, or entitlement governance at scale. Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages, frameworks, or platforms such as Go, Python, Java, Kubernetes or Terraform. Practical cloud-native experience building and operating services on at least one public cloud provider, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods. Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as continuous integration and continuous delivery, application resiliency, and security. Ability to evaluate technical solutions with a customer-focused mindset and understand how engineering decisions impact users and business outcomes. Strong communication skills with the ability to adapt messages for technical and non-technical audiences. Responsible use of approved artificial intelligence tooling, with critical judgement to validate quality, correctness, security, and performance. Willingness to engage in hands-on debugging and code review across distributed systems. Commitment to maintaining high standards of code quality, documentation, and operational health. Capability to work effectively in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities. Willingness to collaborate closely with security, compliance, and architecture teams to ensure alignment with enterprise standards. Readiness to contribute to an evolving roadmap in a rapidly growing cloud engineering organization.

Nice to have

Experience working in financial services or another highly regulated technology environment with formal audit and control posture. Experience contributing to public cloud platform services, developer platforms, or shared engineering capabilities. Familiarity with responsible artificial intelligence use in engineering workflows, including secure handling of inputs and outputs. Experience improving developer experience, platform reliability, or operational efficiency at scale.

Practical notes

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.