Sprout Social

Staff Software Engineer - Back End, Access

Remote US
USD 185k - 240k
Python C# C++ AWS GCP API R Java
Description

Description

Sprout Social is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer to join our Identity and Access Management teams.

Why join Sprout’s Engineering team?

With collaborative cross-functional teams that span mobile, front-end, back-end, and site reliability engineering—the Sprout Engineering team is a place to sharpen your craft and solve hard problems with the smartest people in the industry. You’ll get to work on a “tech-giant” scale with smaller, supportive teams where every engineer has the chance to make an impact on our company, and our customers. The best part? In our industry, you often have to switch jobs or even companies to learn a new part of a tech stack or business. But at Sprout, our product is a suite, so you just need to move teams. You’re able to diversify your skills, which not only benefits your team—but also your career. 

What you’ll do

Our Identity and Access Management (IAM) engineering teams build elegant platform solutions that power multi-tenant features across our entire suite of products. Our solutions help our customers administer user access in dynamic and ever-changing environments, offer granular authorization support for our public APIs, and enforce access controls across our entire product portfolio at scale in our authorization data plane. Our teams collaborate across the entire R&D organization, and your leadership and effective communication skills will be just as valuable as your ability to delve into challenging technical problems to arrive at simple and scalable solutions.

  • You will collaborate with the stakeholders to inform our IAM technical vision.
  • You will help lead the team through complex product and technical roadmaps, guiding them to consistently successful outcomes. 
  • You will champion the quality of service for our access control and data planes, ensuring our team’s ongoing operational excellence is at the forefront of everything we deliver.
  • You will work to improve the processes, systems, and tools we use to deliver quality products, champion ideas that matter, and hold the team accountable.

What you’ll bring

We’re looking for a deeply technical, creative, collaborative, pragmatic, highly motivated, and inquisitive leader to join our team in building great software. If you love solving hard problems, delivering and sustaining high-quality software, and confidently guiding your peers to learn from and teach each other, we’d love to talk with you!

The minimum qualifications for this role include:

  • 7+ years experience developing and supporting software in a production environment
  • 5+ years experience programming in an object oriented language such as Java, Python, C# or C++
  • 3+ years experience leading engineering projects and initiatives, including the design, development, and implementation of distributed systems, ensuring delivery of reliable services, prioritizing technical improvements with cross-functional teams, and/or driving technical vision.

Preferred qualifications for this role include:

  • 5+ years experience developing and supporting high throughput, scalable, distributed, and resilient authorization solutions
  • Experience working with proven IAM standards, such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, RBAC, and JWTs 
  • Experience working with cloud computing technologies such as AWS or GCP 

How you’ll grow

Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including::

  • Complete Sprout’s New Hire training program alongside other new Sprout team members.
  • Get acclimated to the team's current Objectives and Key Results, along with future product roadmap priorities.
  • Learn about our current multi-product Identity and Access Management technical vision.
  • Deploy and make changes to our production systems.
  • Become familiar with the team’s current Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that ensure a world-class customer experience, as well as the SLOs and SLIs we use to proactively track our performance against our SLAs.
  • Collaborate regularly with product managers, product designers, engineers, and other product teams to deliver value to our users.
  • Embrace regular team feedback on your work through code reviews and pairing.

Within 3 months, you will:

  • Begin operating as the access domain’s technical owner by leading initiatives, coordinating with stakeholders, and assuming responsibility for our quality of service.
  • Work with product managers, UX developers, back-end and front-end engineers to lead your first feature delivery, with deliverables broken into an MVP and iterative milestones.
  • Proactively build relationships with members on other teams through active networking and community building.
  • Decompose work into small, similarly-sized units so that task-level estimation is trivial.
  • Become an active participant in code reviews and retrospectives, continuously providing guidance and feedback to others.
  • Foster a positive culture on your teams as an intrinsic side effect of the way you communicate and collaborate. 
  • Work with your team to create and prioritize quarterly team goals.
  • Be the first line of defense against product outages and bugs while on support duty.

Within 6 months, you will:

  • Design, create, and maintain access platform solutions that execute at internet scale in a cost effective manner.
  • Apply your expertise to enhance our existing use of monitoring and alerting tools, thereby ensuring we know about problems before our end users or other back-end teams reliant on our platform.
  • Identify technical debt and performance bottlenecks within our systems, come up with a plan to improve them, and release them to production.
  • Frequently partner with other engineers to iterate on our existing IAM technical strategy in service of our overall vision.
  • Lead technical design planning and facilitate peer review for new feature ideas. 
  • Mentor engineers, helping them level up technically.
  • Author your career growth plan with your manager’s support and work towards it.

Within 12 months, you will:

  • Be the go-to expert of your teams’ systems at the company.
  • Utilize the cross-organization connections you’ve built to identify IAM areas of need across our platform, and create plans that incorporate big-picture technical alignment with other leaders.
  • Own cross-organizational IAM projects and architecture, demonstrating project management skills, consensus building, and strong leadership.
  • Actively mitigate risk of failed delivery and missed deadlines through courageous, transparent communication with colleagues and stakeholders throughout a project life cycle.
  • Have opportunities to contribute to in-house technical presentations and workshops that share your expertise with large groups of Sprout engineers.
  • Surprise us! Use your unique ideas and abilities to change your team in beneficial ways that we haven’t even considered yet.

Of course, what is outlined above is the ideal timeline, but things may shift based on business needs and other projects and tasks could be added at the discretion of your manager.

Our Benefits Program

We’re proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product and culture. Our benefits program includes:

  • Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
  • Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program 
  • High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
  • Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
  • Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program and  employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
  • Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
  • Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting

Whenever possible, Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. Sprout maintains a remote workforce in many places in the United States. However, we are not set up in all states, so please look at the drop-down box in our application to see whether your state is listed. Few roles require an office setting. If your position requires a physical presence in a Sprout office, it will be evident in the job listing and your offer letter.

Individual base pay is based on various factors, including work location, relevant experience and skills, the responsibility of the role, and job duties/requirements. In the United States, we have two geographic pay zones. You can confirm the pay zone for your specific location with your recruiter during your interview process. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

  • Zone 1: $197,500 to $240,000 USD annually
  • Zone 2: $185,000 to $225,000 USD annually


Sprout’s compensation ranges are intentionally broad to allow for our team members' growth within their role. These ranges were determined by a market-based compensation approach; we used data from trusted third-party compensation sources to set equitable, consistent, and competitive ranges. We also evaluate compensation bi-annually, identify any changes in the market and make adjustments to our ranges and existing employee compensation as needed.

Base pay is only one element of an employee's total compensation at Sprout. Every Sprout team member has an opportunity to receive restricted stock units (RSUs) under Sprout’s equity plan. Employees (and their dependents) are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life, accidental death, and dismemberment insurance, and Modern Health (a wellness benefit).  Employees are able to enroll in Sprout’s company’s 401k plan, in which Sprout will match 50% of your contributions up to 6% with a maximum contribution. Sprout offers “Flexible Paid Time Off” and ten paid holidays. We have outlined the various components to an employee’s full compensation package here to help you to understand our total rewards package.

Sprout Social is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and an Affirmative Action Employer. We do not discriminate based on identity- race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex (including sexual identity), age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, arrest record or expunged or sealed convictions, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in our latest DEI Report.

If you require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the interview process or to submit your application, please email us at accommodations@sproutsocial.com. Include the nature of your request and your preferred contact information. We'll do everything we can to support your success during our recruitment process while upholding your privacy. Please note that only inquiries regarding accommodations will receive a response from this email address; other inquiries will not be addressed (e.g., you send your resume but are not requesting an accommodation).

For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please click here (1) Equal Opportunity Employment Poster  (2) Sprout Social's Affirmative Action Statement (3) Pay Transparency Statement

When you apply for employment with Sprout Social, we will process your job applicant data, including your employment and education history, transcript, writing samples, and references as necessary to consider your job application for open positions. Your personal data will be shared with Greenhouse Software, Inc., and Crosschq, Inc., cloud services providers located in the United States of America and engaged by Sprout Social to help manage its recruitment and hiring process on Controller’s behalf. Accordingly, if you are located outside of the United States, by clicking “Submit Application” on this site, you consent to the transfer of your personal data to the United States. For more information about our privacy practices please visit our Privacy Policy. California residents have additional rights and should review the Additional Disclosures for California Residents section in our Privacy Policy.

Additionally, Sprout Social participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. 

#LI-REMOTE

Sprout Social
Sprout Social
Analytics Apps SaaS Social Media Software

1 applies

3 views

There are more than 50,000 engineering jobs:

Subscribe to membership and unlock all jobs

Engineering Jobs

60,000+ jobs from 4,500+ well-funded companies

Updated Daily

New jobs are added every day as companies post them

Refined Search

Use filters like skill, location, etc to narrow results

Become a member

🥳🥳🥳 452 happy customers and counting...

Overall, over 80% of customers chose to renew their subscriptions after the initial sign-up.

To try it out

For active job seekers

For those who are passive looking

Cancel anytime

Frequently Asked Questions

  • We prioritize job seekers as our customers, unlike bigger job sites, by charging a small fee to provide them with curated access to the best companies and up-to-date jobs. This focus allows us to deliver a more personalized and effective job search experience.
  • We've got about 70,000 jobs from 5,000 vetted companies. No fake or sleazy jobs here!
  • We aggregate jobs from 5,000+ companies' career pages, so you can be sure that you're getting the most up-to-date and relevant jobs.
  • We're the only job board *for* software engineers, *by* software engineers… in case you needed a reminder! We add thousands of new jobs daily and offer powerful search filters just for you. 🛠️
  • Every single hour! We add 2,000-3,000 new jobs daily, so you'll always have fresh opportunities. 🚀
  • Typically, job searches take 3-6 months. EchoJobs helps you spend more time applying and less time hunting. 🎯
  • Check daily! We're always updating with new jobs. Set up job alerts for even quicker access. 📅

What Fellow Engineers Say

Sid avatar
Sid
Very nice portal for searching jobs in this rough market.
Mar 6, 2025
Michael Duran avatar
Michael Duran
Software Engineer
I've been using this job search site for a while now, and it’s honestly one of the best out there! The clean and easy-to-navigate UI makes the whole job-hunting process so much smoother. Plus, the job postings are always up-to-date, so I never feel like I’m wasting time. The cherry on top is the owner—super kind and always quick to respond. Definitely recommend checking it out if you're on the job hunt!
Aug 21, 2024
Sai avatar
Sai
It’s really great website for finding jobs based on skills it’s really helpful give a go
Aug 21, 2024
Adinadh avatar
Adinadh
What I like most about Echo Jobs is how easy it is to use. The platform helps me quickly find jobs that match my skills and interests, thanks to its great recommendations and filters. Yes, I would definitely recommend Echo Jobs to a friend. It makes job searching simple and efficient, making it a great tool for anyone looking for a new job.
Jul 23, 2024
As a student navigating the job market, I've found LinkedIn increasingly frustrating due to numerous fake postings by consultancies. In contrast, this job posting website has been a game-changer for me. It offers genuine opportunities and a straightforward application process, making it much easier to find and apply for real jobs. Highly recommend it to fellow students seeking reliable job listings!
Jul 16, 2024
Cliff Gor avatar
Echo Jobs has been exceptional in my job hunt where it provides one platform to job hunt and I don't have to open 10 websites just to look for a job. It has also helped me focus much on the job skill and the location filtering out the onsite jobs and remote ones. The only feature that I would request is to display fully remote jobs that are not restricted to a country since the one available shows ie, Remote, US yet. But if it could show remote only, that would be helpful not only to me but to other people applying for full remote and not tied to only US candidates
Apr 22, 2024
I found EchoJobs in 2022, and I love it. It has a lot of remote jobs. It's exclusive to software and technology jobs (helpful for devs like me). What I like the most are its filters and its API. If you're a tech professional seeking remote work, I highly recommend giving it a try to EchoJobs.
Mar 4, 2024
Would definitely recommend it! Excellent product, dedicated founder, Jobs are easier to find. Congrats 🎉 to the entire team!
Mar 3, 2024
Brandon Banks avatar
Brandon Banks
Echo Jobs is really impressive. It provides a great user experience with an ability to quickly search through the many job postings. There is an impressive amount of jobs here and it is quickly updated. The details in the each job posting is helpful when determining if it is worth pursuing. I would highly recommend using Echo Jobs to find the next step in your career.
Mar 2, 2024
Tyler Young avatar
Tyler Young
tylerayoung.com
Best wishes with EchoJobs—it's become my favorite job board overnight!
Dec 16, 2023
Simply put, it's the most up to date tech jobs aggregator I’ve found. I'm like... "I don't have to check 10+ jobs boards daily just to see if there's a new job listing? sign me up!" The filters are also quite helpful! The UI is very clean and straightforward. Love it!
Oct 5, 2023