Senior hands-on engineer at Conga owning platform identity, authentication, and authorization services (OAuth/OIDC/SAML, REST APIs) for its B2B SaaS products. Leads a team of 5-8, sets security/technical direction, and builds secure integrations between the B2B and Advantage platforms; hybrid in Houston or Boston.
Compensation
$163.4K–$261.4K / yr
Location
British Columbia, Canada
Work setup
Not specified
Seniority
Principal
Employment
Full time
Experience
3+ years
Category
Software engineering
Posted
Skills
agile
ai
api
authentication
automation
aws
azure
ci-cd
cloud
cloud-native
csharp
design-patterns
devops
distributed-systems
docker
gcp
incident-investigation
java
kubernetes
microservices
oauth
observability
openid
python
rest
root-cause-analysis
rust
saas
saml
scala
secure-coding
sql
sre
threat-modeling
typescript
Must have
8+ years of backend software engineering with enterprise SaaS at scale and security-critical services
3+ years designing/building/operating shared identity and platform-security services (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, token-based auth, role/permission models, policy-driven access control)
3+ years as technical leader or senior contributor on shared platform/infrastructure services
Deep experience building backend systems in a modern language such as Java, C#, Python, TypeScript, Scala, or Rust
Strong experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs used by multiple consumers
Solid experience with SQL and data stores supporting platform services
Strong understanding of software design patterns, distributed systems, and platform tradeoffs
Experience leading complex initiatives end to end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support
Experience leading technical initiatives spanning multiple platforms and engineering organizations
Experience leading and mentoring engineers and influencing teams not directly managed
Experience translating strategic product or AI objectives into secure platform designs
Comfort with customer-facing work: support, escalations, resolving competing stakeholder priorities
Strong communication skills and executive presence across Architecture, Security, Product, customers, and junior engineers
Nice to have
Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP plus containerized/orchestrated environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience with Azure SQL
Microservices experience and familiarity with cloud-native security patterns and service-to-service communication
Exposure to DevOps and SRE practices including monitoring, alerting, and automation
Full description
Conga Conga lines up commercial operations so companies run as connected, smarter businesses, aligning pricing, quoting, contracting, rebates, and communications.
Principal Software Engineer Reports to Manager, Product Development
Location Houston, TX - Boston, MA Hybrid
About The Role As a Principal Software Engineer on Conga’s B2B Platform Engineering, Core Services team, you’ll own the security, identity, and access management capabilities that every Conga B2B product is built on. You’ll lead a team of 5 to 8 engineers, set technical direction for authentication and authorization across the platform, and serve as a key technical partner to the Advantage Platform organization. Together with Advantage, you’ll establish secure, reusable integration patterns between the two platforms.
This is a senior, hands‑on role for an engineer who wants influence beyond a single product team. You’ll work in a highly connected environment, on a small team that supports a large customer base. That means ramping quickly, building trust across groups, and shaping shared security services used throughout Conga’s platform ecosystem.
What You’ll Do Own platform identity and security
Act as the primary technical lead for platform-level security and identity services, including authentication and authorization systems.
Lead design and development of mission-critical core services that support cross-product identity, access control, tenant context, and security standards.
Translate high-level architectural direction into detailed technical designs and production-ready implementations.
Partner with the Advantage Platform team to define and implement secure integration patterns between B2B and Advantage.
Define API contracts, authentication flows, authorization models, and tenant-context propagation across distributed systems.
Coordinate cross-platform design, implementation, testing, release readiness, and operational support for shared authentication capabilities.
Lead and raise the bar
Lead and mentor a team of 5 to 8 engineers, and provide technical guidance to engineering groups beyond your own.
Provide technical leadership through code reviews, design reviews, threat modeling, and operational readiness.
Raise the bar on secure coding practices and platform engineering discipline.
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Partner across Conga
Work with Architecture and Product Security to implement and evolve security patterns, standards, and controls across the platform.
Collaborate across B2B Platform, Advantage Platform, Architecture, Product Engineering, AI, and Product Security to deliver secure, reusable integrations.
Translate strategic AI pillar objectives into secure, scalable platform capabilities that can be reused across products and AI experiences.
Document decisions, dependencies, ownership, and operational responsibilities clearly across team boundaries.
Support customers and production
Lead incident investigation and resolution for security-sensitive services, including root cause analysis and long-term remediation.
Engage directly with customers on support issues and escalations, and work through conflicting priorities with internal and external stakeholders.
Are you the person we’re looking for?
8+ years of backend software engineering, with a track record delivering enterprise SaaS services that operate at scale and are security-critical.
3+ years designing, building, or operating shared identity and platform-security services used by multiple products, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, token-based authentication, role and permission models, and policy-driven access control.
3+ years as a technical leader or senior contributor on shared platform or infrastructure services.
Deep experience building backend systems in a modern language such as Java, C#, Python, TypeScript, Scala, or Rust.
Strong experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs used by multiple consumers.
Solid experience with SQL and data stores supporting platform services.
Strong understanding of software design patterns, distributed systems, and platform tradeoffs.
Experience leading complex initiatives end to end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support.
Experience leading technical initiatives that span multiple platforms, engineering organizations, and ownership boundaries.
Experience leading and mentoring engineers, and influencing teams you don’t directly manage through collaboration and technical credibility.
Experience translating strategic product or AI objectives into secure platform designs and executable delivery plans.
Comfort in customer-facing work, including support, escalations, and resolving competing stakeholder perspectives.
Strong communication skills and executive presence. You can work effectively with Architecture, Security, Product, engineering leaders, customers, and junior engineers.
Here’s What Will Give You An Edge…
Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP, plus containerized and orchestrated environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience with Azure SQL
Microservices experience and familiarity with cloud-native security patterns and service-to-service communication
Exposure to DevOps and SRE practices for platform services, including monitoring, alerting, and automation
Why this role matters You’ll be the technical leader for the identity and access capabilities that protect Conga’s entire B2B portfolio. Your work will secure the integration between the B2B and Advantage platforms, and it will define reusable authentication and authorization patterns for both product and AI experiences. You’ll also bring consistency to identity, tenant context, permissions, and service-to-service access across Conga.
The role comes with broad impact across multiple product teams, close alignment with Architecture and long-term platform strategy, and a clear growth path in technical leadership. You’ll help shape Conga’s security posture, engineering standards, and platform foundations.
In the spirit of the Conga Edge, we stride to design easy-to-understand compensation programs that are fair and free from any type of discrimination. In keeping with this approach, we are committed to delivering competitive compensation and benefits packages to our employees worldwide and communicating transparently about the structure of our compensation programs.
Listed below is the U.S. base salary range for this full-time position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education, or training. In addition to base salary, employees receive a variable incentive pay component, perks such as flexible work options, and a full range of benefits including medical and dental insurance.
The posted salary ranges are for the expectations outlined in the job description. We are often open to a wide variety of profiles and sometimes have flexibility within our organizational structure to adjust the role responsibilities up or down should we select a candidate that is less or more experienced than the posted job requirements. In these occasional cases, we will communicate the revised salary range to the candidate during the selection process.
U.S Base Salary Range $163,380—$261,410 USD
Additional Information Conga is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, parental or pregnancy status, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We understand interviewing can be stressful for those with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to allow you to show us your best self, please let your recruiter know as soon as possible. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Conga is not open to third party solicitation or resumes for our posted FTE positions. Resumes received from third party agencies that are unsolicited will be considered complimentary.
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