Major League Baseball's Identity Platforms Services team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer to specialize in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM). The role involves shaping the authentication and authorization landscape for MLB's digital platforms, impacting millions of fans globally, by enhancing security, scalability, and user experience across various applications and devices.
Requirements
- 7+ years of industry experience with a focus on identity management, authentication, and authorization systems
- Expertise in designing and implementing CIAM solutions for web and mobile applications, including Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and OAuth protocols
- High proficiency in Java and Spring Boot framework
- Experience with front-end web development
- Experience with at least one Cloud platform (Google Cloud, AWS, or similar)
- Hands-on experience with vendors such as Okta, Auth0 or similar platforms
- Experience with Google Cloud
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and implementation of identity projects, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and business requirements
- Architect, maintain, and optimize libraries and identity-focused SDKs for our various platforms
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance CIAM systems' performance, reliability, and security posture
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to software engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning
- Participate in the full software development life cycle (requirements gathering, designing, building, testing and maintenance)
- Lead and take ownership of critical features and your own initiatives
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies, trends, and industry standards related to identity management and security
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
- History of mature, egoless engineering and contributing to a positive, psychologically safe environment
- Participate in an agile environment
- Proactively seek constructive criticism of your own work and offer constructive feedback to others in a way that raises people up and builds relationships
- Participate in and lead triage efforts during production incidents
- Mentor and coach engineers in your team and across the organization to build a strong engineering-focused culture
- Influence the way that baseball is consumed by millions of users worldwide
- Master’s Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
- Certification in CIAM or related areas
- Experience with GraphQL and data federation
- Experience working with cloud-native tooling such as Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
- Experience contributing to open source projects
- Experience with public cloud providers such as Google Cloud
- Experience with content delivery networks such as Cloudflare, Fastly
- A baseball fan or sports enthusiast
- Employees love working at MLB because of the culture of growth, teamwork, and professionalism.
- Employees who are most successful at MLB take initiative, know how to identify problems and provide solutions, and always put the Team first.
- MLB is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status.
- We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
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