Staff Software Engineer
Software Engineering
Mountain View, CA, USA
USD 202,500-274k / year + Equity
Staff Software Engineer
Company Overview
Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.
Job Overview
The Identity Platform team is seeking a Staff Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable identity services that power authentication and authorization across Credit Karma and Intuit. This role combines deep hands-on engineering with identity protocol expertise, operational ownership of Tier-1 services, and close collaboration with other product and partner teams within Intuit to strengthen platform security, reliability and observability.
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, build, and maintain secure, scalable identity services using Scala/Go/Java.
- Own hands-on implementation and support of identity protocols including OAuth2, SAML, and FIDO/Passkeys.
- Apply secure service design principles across new and existing identity services.
- Develop new upstream service requirements each quarter in support of infrastructure and OKR delivery.
- Build and maintain deep domain expertise in Authentication, Authorization and related technologies to support Intuit's broader platform objectives.
- Support and help operate Identity services that power Intuit's Tier-1 critical systems.
- Participate in the on-call rotation, driving timely issue resolution, root cause analysis, and incident prevention.
- Partner with Platform, Product, SRE and other adjacent teams to improve platform observability and reliability.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipeline design in CircleCI and maintain strong unit/integration test coverage.
- Support service deployment and operations on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Collaborate with partner teams across Intuit and Credit Karma on urgent, time-sensitive identity initiatives.
Qualifications
- Deep expertise in Scala/Java development, with a track record of building and operating production-grade services.
- Strong knowledge of MySQL, including schema design, query optimization, and data integrity practices.
- Hands-on, deep experience with OAuth2, SAML, and FIDO/Passkeys, along with secure service design principles.
- Proficiency with CircleCI and strong practices in unit and integration testing.
- Working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for service deployment and operations.
- Willingness and ability to participate in an on-call rotation, with a focus on timely issue resolution, root cause analysis, and incident prevention
- Demonstrated ability to partner cross-functionally with SRE and other teams to improve observability and reliability.
- Prior experience operating Tier-1 or otherwise business-critical production systems at scale.
- Familiarity with Identity Protocol frameworks relevant to authentication (e.g., OAuth2, FIDO Alliance standards).
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical direction at a Staff/Principal level
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Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.
The expected base pay range for this position is:Mountain View $202,500 - $274,000