This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer – Users Infrastructure based in India.
This is a high-impact backend engineering role focused on building the foundational identity and security infrastructure behind a global technology platform.
As a founding member of the Users Infrastructure team in India, you will help shape a new regional engineering hub while contributing to a Tier-1 infrastructure function.
You will architect and evolve globally distributed Identity and Access Management (IAM) services using Go, SpiceDB, gRPC, and modern authorization patterns.
The role spans authentication, fine-grained authorization, enterprise identity integrations, auditability, observability, and system reliability.
You’ll build secure developer-facing platforms that enable hundreds of engineers to integrate identity and security capabilities efficiently.
The position combines deep hands-on distributed systems engineering with technical ownership, cross-region collaboration,



and leadership.
It is an opportunity to influence foundational architecture, security standards, and engineering culture from the ground up.
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Accountabilities:
Architect and develop core services responsible for the identity lifecycle, authenticating both human and machine identities across the platform.
Design and evolve modern Identity and Access Management (IAM) capabilities, including authentication, authorization, session management, and identity data consistency.
Define and implement fine-grained authorization models across complex, multi-tenant organizational and location hierarchies.
Lead the transition from legacy authorization approaches toward up-to-date, scalable authorization infrastructure using SpiceDB and Zanzibar-style permission models.
Build and maintain the internal SDKs, gRPC contracts, middleware, and developer tooling that provide secure, standardized integration patterns for

📌 Senior Backend Engineer – Users Infrastructure (India)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 India