Staff Software Engineer, Identity Platform

About the role

Rivian's Identity Platform team builds the core systems powering authentication, authorization and user lifecycle management across its mobile, web and vehicle products. It is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join a newly formed Serbia-based team as its senior technical anchor, working closely with the Engineering Manager and Principal Architect.

Key responsibilities

• Lead architecture decisions, author RFCs and ADRs, and drive the long-term evolution of the platform
• Design, implement and maintain scalable backend microservices, owning complex features end to end
• Treat security as a first-class constraint, thinking in threat models and catching risks early
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code for databases, caches, message queues and event streaming services
• Own production health: define SLOs, write structured logs, author runbooks and take part in on-call rotation
• Mentor and sponsor mid-level and senior engineers through design reviews, pairing and honest feedback
• Partner with Security, Product, Data Privacy and Infrastructure teams

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 7+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, with production systems at scale
• Proven ability to lead technical discussions, author design documents and drive decisions across teams
• Excellent written and verbal English

Required skills

• Strong proficiency in Python, Go or Java, and comfort learning others
• Authentication and authorization: session management, tokens, MFA, OAuth2/OIDC
• REST API design, HTTP and service-to-service communication
• Cloud services (AWS preferred) and Kubernetes
• Structured logging, metrics and distributed tracing

Nice to have: identity and access management platforms, fine-grained authorization (ReBAC, ABAC), infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi), GDPR/CCPA awareness, platform migration experience, and a background in automotive, IoT or connected consumer products.