• Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs that power AuthZed Cloud’s control plane. • Build and operate Kubernetes-native systems, including custom operators and controllers, to manage customer environments and infrastructure lifecycle. • Design durable, idempotent workflows for provisioning, configuration changes, scaling, and deletion. • Implement and integrate authentication and identity flows (e.g., SSO, SAML, OAuth/OIDC) in a secure, multi-tenant SaaS environment. • Implement and evolve usage-based billing systems. • Engineer distributed systems that behave correctly under partial failure, retries, concurrency, and long-running operations. • Collaborate closely with frontend engineers to design APIs and workflows that result in clear, reliable user experiences. • Ensure services are observable and operable through structured logging, metrics, and alerts. • Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues involving orchestration, authentication, or state management. • Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to incident resolution and post-incident improvements. • Document APIs, workflows, system behavior, and operational guidelines.