Bloomberg's clients rely on secure and seamless access to its products. The team needs to build and modernize infrastructure that verifies identities for clients and employees, ensuring systems are fast, resilient, and highly available for large volumes of authentication traffic.
Requirements
- Experience guiding the architecture of large scale authentication systems.
- Experience developing or operating Open ID Providers, Authorization Servers, and Identity Providers.
- Experience designing, building, or configuring federated identity management systems or identity brokers.
- Deep understanding of OAuth, OIDC, SAML, FIDO or similar protocols.
- Demonstrated expertise in security concepts.
- 4+ years working with an object-oriented programming language (C/C++, Python, Java, Go, etc.).
- Experience building and scaling distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Lead design and development of Bloomberg’s next-generation authentication and MFA systems, aligning with future product goals.
- Create scalable, end-to-end identity solutions across web, API, and proprietary technologies.
- Build tools to simplify authentication integration for internal and external teams, ensuring applications have a high level of default security.
- Design systems that are fast, resilient, and highly available, capable of handling large volumes of authentication traffic around the clock.
- Responsible for Single Sign-On (SSO) infrastructure.
- Responsible for Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enrollment and verification.
- Responsible for MFA policy management systems.
Other
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners across product, design, and engineering.
- Passionate about making systems more secure and user-friendly.
- Value staying informed about industry trends in identity management.
- Care deeply about software quality, reliability, and scalability.
- Prioritize data-driven decision making.
