The Company You’ll Join

Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Our mission is to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places.

Carta is trusted by more than 40,000 companies and over two million people in nearly 160 countries to manage cap tables, compensation, and valuations. Carta also supports nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs, and represents nearly $130B in assets under administration. Carta's tender offer solutions have returned $14B to shareholders in secondary transactions. Today, Carta’s platform manages nearly three trillion dollars in equity globally.

For more information about our offices and culture, check out our Carta careers page.

The Problems You'll Solve

At Carta, our employees set out on a mission to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places. We believe that the problems we solve today unlock the opportunities of tomorrow. As a Senior Software Engineer on the IAM team, you’ll work to:

Build, maintain and support IAM services for all Carta products - login, registration, session, auditing, MFA, OAuth, Permissions, SSO
Reinforcing service resiliency, availability, performance and fault tolerance
Maintain standalone services
Enable more effective troubleshooting and monitoring in authentication and authorization services
Collaborate with teams across the company to solve complex permission problems and address security concerns

The Team You'll Work With

The IAM (Identity and Access Management) team is a software engineering team that builds services leveraged by Carta’s entire product suite to authenticate and authorize millions of users. We are the gatekeepers of Carta. We ensure that our users can access Carta systems and resources securely with the right level of access. We are a highly impactful, cross-functional team that loves solving problems at scale!

About You

You have strong technical skills, are excited by projects that create scale, and enjoy working closely with stakeholders across engineering as well as product. You’ve worked in a monolithic environment and have felt the pain as organizations grow. Ideally, you’ve helped transform the monolithic environment to microservices.

You have 4+ years of backend, or full-stack software development experience working as an individual contributor. You have experience designing and deploying scalable, production-quality products with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and microservices. You are excited about authentication technologies such as SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect. You are familiar or willing to learn our technology stack: Python, ReactJS, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, CircleCI, Datadog, gRPC.

You enjoy learning and are highly collaborative. Our team consists of people who are happy to help you learn everything you need to be successful at Carta.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing a positive interview experience for every candidate. If accommodations due to a disability or medical condition are needed, please connect with the recruiter via email. As a company, we value fairness, helpfulness, transparency, leadership and build our teams around these values. Check out our careers page to get to know us better as you think about your next step at Carta.

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Awards and Acknowledgements

Companies and funds like Tribe and Pipe build their businesses on Carta. The company has been included on the Forbes World’s Best Cloud Companies, Fast Company's Most Innovative list, and Inc.’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies. We’ve also been recognized as a 2023 Built In Best Place to Work in the U.S., a Muse VIBE Award winner in the Vacation and Time Off category and certified as a Great Place to Work.

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Senior Software Engineer I, Identity and Access Management

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