Hiring: IAM / Authentication Engineer – Golang
Location: Hybrid for Hyderabad
Employment: C2H (Contract-to-Hire)
Experience: 4+ Years

We are looking for candidates with strong experience in IAM/Authentication + Golang backend development.

Key Responsibilities
· Design, develop and maintain secure identity and authentication services using Golang.
· Work with authentication and IAM technologies including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, LDAP/Active Directory, Kerberos, X.509 and FIDO2/WebAuthn.
· Build integrations with enterprise identity providers and directory services.
· Develop and troubleshoot authentication flows across Windows and Linux environments
· Work with certificate-based authentication, public-key authentication and PKI concepts.
· Develop secure REST/gRPC APIs and backend components for identity and authentication workflows.
· Understand and troubleshoot authentication scenarios involving Windows Logon, RDP, smart cards and certificates.
· Apply secure coding practices and cryptographic concepts including TLS, digital signatures, key pairs and certificate chains.
· Investigate authentication failures across application, client, network and server layers and perform root-cause analysis.
· Write maintainable Go code with appropriate unit, integration and security testing.· Collaborate with backend, client, platform and security engineering teams on architecture and implementation

Required Skills

IAM / Authentication

· 4+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in IAM, cybersecurity, authentication or security products.· Good understanding of authentication, authorization, federation, SSO and MFA concepts.




· Hands-on experience with at least one or more enterprise IAM/authentication technologies such as OAuth 2.0/OIDC, SAML, LDAP/Active Directory, Kerberos, PKI/X.509 or FIDO2/WebAuthn.
· Good understanding of access tokens, refresh tokens, public-key authentication and certificate-based authentication.
· Ability to understand and troubleshoot authentication flows end-to-end.

Golang· Strong hands-on experience with Go/Golang.
· Experience developing backend services and APIs using Go.
· Good understanding of goroutines, channels, context, error handling and concurrency.
· Experience with REST and/or gRPC, API design, logging, testing and service integration.
Security
· Good understanding of TLS, certificates, public/private key cryptography and digital signatures.
· Awareness of secure software development practices and common application security risks.
· Solid debugging, problem-solving and analytical skills.

Good to Have
· Hands-on experience with FIDO2 / WebAuthn / passkeys.
· Experience with Microsoft Active Directory and/or AD CS.
· Knowledge of Windows authentication architecture, Credential Providers, SSPI/CredSSP or RDP authentication.
· Experience with smart cards, PKCS#11, Windows CNG/CryptoAPI or enterprise PKI.
· Experience with Linux PAM/NSS or system-level authentication.
· Experience with identity providers such as Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Keycloak, Ping Identity or similar.
· Experience with security keys, hardware authenticators, HSMs or key-management systems.
· Working knowledge of C/C++ or Windows system programming.
· Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD environments.

Pay: From ₹1,000,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person

📌 IAM Developer (India)
🏢 Aliqan Technologies
📍 India