Senior Software Engineer at Yammer

About the role

What will you do at Yammer?

Design and Build Identity Security Platforms Design, develop, and maintain large-scale Identity and Access Management services and platforms. Build secure solutions supporting identity lifecycle management, provisioning, authentication, authorization, access governance, privileged access workflows, and identity protection capabilities. Develop highly scalable cloud services, APIs, and distributed systems that support mission-critical enterprise scenarios.

Drive architecture discussions and contribute to long-term platform strategy. Leverage modern engineering practices, automation, and AI-powered development tools to improve velocity, quality, and developer productivity. Ensure engineering excellence through code reviews, testing strategies, automation, and continuous improvement.

Deliver projects with a strong focus on quality, security, reliability, and customer impact. Improve service quality through automation, operational best practices, and continuous service improvement. Apply security-by-design principles throughout the software development lifecycle.

Design systems that securely manage sensitive identity and access data. Identify and mitigate architectural, operational, and security risks. Drive secure coding, threat modelling, risk assessment, and compliance readiness activities.

Drive alignment across organisations to achieve engineering and business objectives. Influence technical decisions through data-driven analysis and strong engineering judgement. Mentor engineers and contribute to an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture.

Communicate technical strategies, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Bachelor's/master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related technical discipline with 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, Java, Python, or Go. Experience designing and building cloud-scale distributed systems and services.

Experience with microservices architectures, REST APIs, and cloud-native application development. Strong software design, debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimisation skills. Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and operational excellence.

Ability to independently drive complex technical initiatives from design through production. Experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools and automation technologies to improve engineering outcomes. Experience building Identity and Access Management (IAM), Identity Governance, Authentication, Authorization, Access Governance, Provisioning, or Identity Protection solutions.

Experience with enterprise security, Zero Trust, or access governance technologies. Knowledge of cloud security, privileged access management, identity lifecycle management, and modern identity protection strategies. Experience operating mission-critical services at scale.

Experience driving platform modernisation and security transformation initiatives.

Which skills does this role require?

PythonJavaC#REST APIs

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