The Staff Software Engineer for the Access Management team at Databricks will play a crucial role in enhancing the platform's authorization services. This position involves setting technical direction for engineers in Bellevue while collaborating with a technical lead in Mountain View. The focus is on evolving access-gating systems that determine user permissions and ensuring the security of customer data. The role requires deep expertise in access management and a strong foundation in distributed systems and security.

• Deep expertise in access management, identity, or authorization systems.
• Strong distributed systems and security fundamentals.
• Demonstrated technical leadership on a team, ideally across multiple locations.
• Track record of designing and shipping backend services at scale.

• Evolve the platform's core authorization service, which is critical for access-control decisions.
• Migrate and consolidate permission-checking across the platform onto a unified authorization model.
• Build fine-grained access controls, including scoped service identities and role-based access control.
• Develop network ingress access policies for customer resources.
• Raise the availability and reliability of a high-throughput, low-latency authorization service.