Staff Software Engineer Identity

Salary: £60,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• Production-grade backend engineering at Staff level, with a track record of owning systems across team boundaries.
• A strong record of driving initiatives from design through implementation, deployment, and operation.
• Genuine willingness to get hands on and jump into operational and incident work.
• Experience building and operating reliable, high-throughput services, balancing delivery with keeping systems running.
• Solid software engineering and architecture principles that can be spread across a team through mentoring.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving, still maturing organisation, with the resilience to work through ambiguity.
• Clear communication and the ability to influence technical direction without authority.
• Depth in identity and access platforms such as SSO, OIDC, SCIM, and session management is a plus.
• Familiarity with modern cloud-native infrastructure such as EKS, Aurora, and Redis is a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Raise the engineering bar across the team through design review, mentoring, and pragmatic technical standards.
• Own the delivery of identity services end to end, from design through implementation, deployment, and ongoing operation.
• Step into urgent customer and operational incidents, helping diagnose and resolve them quickly and then prevent recurrence.
• Balance feature delivery with the reliability and availability of critical infrastructure that runs at high request volumes.
• Set technical direction and make principled architectural trade-offs on reliability, availability, consistency, and security across the identity domain.
• Help move the identity platform from startup grade to solid, scalable infrastructure over time.
• Shape the longer-term identity roadmap, including the evolution of SSO, SCIM, and OIDC on modern cloud infrastructure.
• Lead analysis of complex or ambiguous needs, frame solutions in business terms, coordinate alignment across stakeholders, and ensure delivery addresses the real problem.

Technologies:

• AI
• Backend
• Cloud
• Redis
• Security
• Network

More:

We are DeepL, a global AI product and research company building secure, intelligent solutions to complex business problems. Our Language AI platform is trusted by over 200,000 business customers and millions of individuals across 228 global markets. Founded in 2017, we have around 1,000 employees and are supported by Benchmark, IVP, and Index Ventures. Our Identity and Access Management team owns our full identity stack, including organisation, group, account, consent and session management, SSO federation, SCIM provisioning, and the OIDC provider, for both internal and external users. This role is based in London and is full time within our Engineering department. We offer a diverse, internationally distributed team, open communication with regular feedback, a hybrid work schedule with flexible hours, Virtual Shares, regular in-person team events, monthly full-day hacking sessions, 30 days of annual leave, and competitive location-based benefits. We value authenticity, inclusion, growth, and the chance to help shape the future of AI and better communication worldwide.

last updated 36 week of 2026