# Senior Software Engineer - Platform Identity (Hybrid)

**Company**: Instructure
**Location**: Budapest, Central Hungary
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Instructure, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform Identity team at Instructure, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining core components of our identity and access management (IAM) solution,which underpins all of Instructure's products.

## Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and deploy robust and scalable IAM services, including authentication, authorization, user provisioning, and directory services.

- Lead technical discussions, conduct architectural reviews, and provide mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers on the team.

- Collaborate closely with product managers, security engineers, and other engineering teams to define requirements, design solutions, and integrate identity services across Instructure’s product ecosystem.

- Implement and enforce best practices for security, data privacy, and compliance within identity systems.

- Optimize existing identity solutions for performance, reliability, and maintainability.

- Participate in on-call rotation and provide support for production identity systems, efficiently troubleshooting and resolving complex issues.

- Contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes, tools, and infrastructure.

- Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies in identity management and security.

## Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.

- 5+ years of professional software development experience, with a significant focus on identity and access management systems.

- Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Ruby, Go, Java, Python, C#) and experience with relevant frameworks.

- Demonstrable experience with identity protocols and standards (e.g., OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM).

- Solid understanding of security principles, cryptography, and best practices for securing web applications and APIs.

- Experience designing and building highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.

- Proficiency with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases.

- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex technical issues and propose effective solutions.

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.

## Benefits

- Competitive compensation, plus all full-time employees participate in our ownership program

- Flexible work culture

- Generous time off, including local holidays and our annual “Dim the Lights” period

- Comprehensive wellness programs and mental health support

- Learning and development resources, including professional development tools and tuition reimbursement

- The technology and tools you need to do your best work

- Motivosity employee recognition program

## Skills

### Required
- identity and access management systems
- modern programming languages
- identity protocols and standards
- security principles
- cryptography
- web application security
- distributed systems
- relational databases
- NoSQL databases
- cloud platforms
- containerization technologies

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