Software Engineer (Python/Go, Infrastructure)
Backend engineer on Sauce Labs' Platform Services team in Gurugram (hybrid, 3 days in office), building and operating multi-tenant authentication, authorization, and account-management services in Python and Go, with SSO (SAML/OIDC), SCIM, Kafka, Kubernetes, and deep observability on the request path.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Gurgaon, India
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Python 3.12+ (expert)
- Go 1.23+ (intermediate)
- FastAPI (advanced)
- Django and Django REST Framework (advanced)
- MongoDB (intermediate): document modelling, indexing, schema migrations, denormalisation trade-offs
- MySQL (intermediate): schema migrations, transactions, query cost
- Redis basics
- LDAP / directory services basics
- Kafka basics: consumer groups, partitioning, idempotent consumption, retries, dead-letter handling
- REST and OpenAPI (intermediate)
- Multi-tenancy modelling (advanced): organisations, teams, membership, roles
- Token-based authentication / JWT (advanced): issuing, validating, claims design, expiry, revocation
- OIDC (advanced)
- SAML (advanced)
- Session management (advanced)
- Role-based and attribute-based access control (advanced)
- SCIM provisioning familiarity
- Docker (intermediate)
- Kubernetes (advanced): deploying, inspecting, debugging services
- Helm (intermediate)
- CI/CD pipelines, GitLab CI or equivalent (intermediate)
- OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing (advanced)
- Prometheus and PromQL (advanced)
- Grafana (advanced)
- Log querying at scale (advanced)
Full description
Location - Hybrid
This is a hybrid role based out of our Gurugram, India office, 3 days in the office, 2 days remote.
About Us
Sauce Labs is the world’s largest full-lifecycle, test automation platform, and the company behind Selenium. Trusted by 80% of the world’s top ten largest financial institutions and over 300,000 enterprise users, Sauce Labs provides the only AI platform capable of turning business intent into autonomous testing and quality assurance. With a proprietary dataset of 8.7 billion test runs, Sauce Labs empowers the Fortune 2000 to bridge the gap between AI-driven code generation and enterprise-grade software quality. Learn more at .
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The Role:
As a Software Engineer in the Platform Services team, you will be responsible for maintaining and improving core architecture for applications developed in the company. Feature teams implement new ideas and improve existing ones based on the vision of the Product Team and feedback from our customers. Platform Services has high visibility and importance within the company as it’s job is to provide common foundations for those teams to build on, merge and deployment strategy, monitoring, and give technological guidance to developers throughout the company.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and operate backend services for authentication, authorisation and account management.
- Model multi-tenant account structures — organisations, teams, membership and roles — and keep the model correct as the product grows.
- Design and evolve public and internal APIs, including versioning and backward compatibility.
- Integrate enterprise identity: single sign-on over SAML and OIDC, and provisioning over SCIM.
- Build event-driven integrations over Kafka, including schema design and compatibility.
- Keep services available and fast on the request path, across several regions.
- Own what you build in production: metrics, tracing, alerting, and on-call for your own services.
Requirements
Languages and frameworks:
- Python 3.12+ — Expert
- Go 1.23+ — Intermediate
- FastAPI — Advanced
- Django and Django REST Framework — Advanced
Datastores:
- MongoDB — Intermediate — document modelling, indexing, schema migrations, and the trade-offs of denormalisation
- MySQL — Intermediate — schema migrations, transactions, reasoning about query cost
- Redis — basics