Staff Software Engineer, SDKs & Open Source

• Define and drive the technical direction for FGA DevEx across open source and SaaS, and turn it into a roadmap with the engineering manager and the product team.
• Build support for that direction across the team, the FGA group and open source community 
• Mentor the team's senior engineers, and raise the level of everyone around you.
• Establish how a new team builds software, from design reviews and coding standards to how we test and ship, and set the quality bar.
• Make the calls that are hard to undo: when an API is ready to ship across every language, how it evolves, and when to deprecate.
• Be the voice of developer experience across FGA: partner with the Core team on API design and with internal teams such as Integrations, and flag developer friction wherever you see it.

• Architect our SDKs in Go, JavaScript, .NET, Python and Java, including the generator every client is built from.
• Set the standards every SDK follows, from authentication and error handling to retries and rate limiting.
• Shape the tooling and content around the SDKs: the CLI, IDE integrations, Helm charts, GitHub automation, docs and examples.
• Drive the release and versioning strategy across all divisions 
• Grow our open source community: build the contributor and maintainer base beyond the team today, and make it easy for outside developers to contribute.

• 8+ years as a software engineer, including time leading the technical direction of a team or a significant area, with or without the title.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#/.NET, Python or Java, and the curiosity to work across several.
• Experience building software other developers use: SDKs, API clients, libraries, developer platforms, CLIs or tooling.
• A strong sense of API design and ergonomics, and of how an interface should feel in different languages 
• Clear communication and a track record of influencing decisions across teams and with outside contributors, without relying on authority

• Contributing to, maintaining or leading open source projects.
• Building with code generation tools such as OpenAPI Generator and templating frameworks.
• Designing resilient clients: authentication flows, retries and rate limiting.
• Setting up GitHub Actions and release automation.
• Working in authorization or identity, such as OAuth, RBAC or ReBAC.

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