Senior Software Engineer – JIT Proxy

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  Design, build, test, and maintain highly concurrent services that power secure, just-in-time access to customer resources.

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  Build and extend proxy capabilities across a growing range of protocols and resource types, including SSH, RDP, Kubernetes, databases, and more.

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  Develop distributed systems that securely deliver and enforce tenant policy, identity, and resource data across cloud services and proxies running in customer environments.

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  Build, deploy, and operate cloud services on Kubernetes and Azure, along with proxy software deployed into customer environments.

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  Write clean, well-tested software with a strong focus on secure networking, reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability.

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  Work with architects, product managers, and partner platform teams to define technical approaches and deliver features from design through production.

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  Diagnose complex connectivity, protocol, security, and performance issues across cloud services and customer environments.

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  Mentor other engineers, contribute to code and design reviews, and help continuously improve our engineering practices.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend, distributed, networking, or systems-level software.

• Strong experience with concurrent programming, networking, and network protocols.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, including reliability, failure handling, APIs, and service-to-service communication.

• Experience building secure software, including authentication, encryption, credential handling, or other security considerations for networked systems.

• Experience with Azure, AWS, or another major cloud provider and cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes.

• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to navigate complex technical problems and collaborate effectively across teams.

• A track record of mentoring other engineers and an eagerness to learn new technologies, protocols, and problem domains.

• Experience developing production software in Go (Golang), particularly concurrent or networked services.

• Experience building proxies, gateways, or other networked systems, including implementing or debugging protocols such as SSH, RDP, Kubernetes, or database protocols.

• Experience with security and identity technologies, including authentication, secrets management, credential brokering, or policy-as-code and authorization engines such as Cedar.

• Experience with observability and event-driven systems using technologies such as OpenTelemetry and message brokers.

• Experience shipping software into customer environments, including handling version skew, upgrades, and operational troubleshooting.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure and development tooling such as Terraform, Azure DevOps or similar CI/CD systems, and container-based integration testing.

• Understanding of Zero Trust architectures, just-in-time and least-privilege access, FIPS compliance, and secure software development practices.

• Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do

• Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments

• Respect - We listen, value different perspectives, and work as one team

• Ownership - We take initiative and follow through

• Nimble - We adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment

• Global - We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes

We believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions, and our process for hiring, evaluating, and promoting employees, helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie.

We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent benefits, including healthcare insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, time off plans, and paid company holidays.

Delinea is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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