Hybrid Senior Security Engineer

at Shipt

• Job title: Senior Security Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $93,000 - $187,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, JavaScript, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, Terraform, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Birmingham, United States

About the role

• Senior Security Engineer on IAM team at Shipt designing authentication and authorization services. Collaborating with security, infrastructure, and product engineering teams for operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Design and own mission‑critical authentication and authorization services that keep Shipt secure and seamless.
• Build and evolve secure, scalable IAM capabilities—SSO, MFA, token services, policy, and role management—integrating platforms like Auth0 and Okta with our applications and API Gateway.
• Collaborate closely with Security, Infrastructure, and Product engineering teams to drive best practices, reliability, and a great developer experience.
• Set the bar for code quality and operational excellence through clear designs, thoughtful documentation, and hands‑on mentorship.

Requirements

• 4+ years of software development experience delivering and operating production services.
• Ownership of mission‑critical systems, including support for incident response and production troubleshooting.
• Strong grasp of REST principles and API design; experience with service‑oriented/microservice architectures and distributed systems.
• Practical expertise in IAM: designing authn/authz flows; token‑based auth (OAuth/JWT); SSO and MFA; secure session and policy/role management.
• Hands‑on with identity platforms such as Auth0 and/or Okta, integrating identity with diverse applications and services.
• Proficiency with modern stacks and tooling, e.g., Go, JavaScript, Terraform, and operational tooling for deploy/monitoring.
• Data and systems fundamentals: modeling complex persisted data; performance tuning of code and database queries.
• Familiarity with storage and messaging (e.g., Postgres, Redis, Kafka) and effective caching patterns.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to simplify complex ideas and produce clear design docs/runbooks.
• Collaborative and mentoring mindset: generous with code reviews, eager to learn and to coach peers; results‑driven and pragmatic.
• Passion for continual learning and building reliable, high‑performance, secure systems that enable our engineers and delight our users.

Benefits

• Employees (and eligible family members) are covered by medical, dental, vision and more.
• Employees may enroll in our company’s 401k plan.
• Employees will also be eligible to receive discretionary vacation for exempt team members.
• Paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Paid sick leave.
• Other compensation includes eligibility for an annual bonus and the potential for restricted stock units based on role.