Technical Leader, Software Engineering (Passwordless) - Duo Security
Duo Security, now part of Cisco, is the leading multi-factor authentication (MFA) and secure access provider.
Duo + Cisco = Disco
With the Most Loved Company in Security and the global leader in network technology joining forces, there are more exciting opportunities than ever to be at the forefront of securing the cloud.
Our mission is simple: democratize security by making it easy and effective for everyone. We're transforming security from the ground up by solving the world's most pressing geopolitical challenge - safe, secure information access. We engineer our business to enable our customers to easily address their ever-evolving security challenges.
We believe that impactful work is rewarding work and that our team is at its best when everyone feels empowered to bring their whole self to work. We learn together by hiring for cultural contribution, not cultural fit, and recognize that diversity in background and thought are essential to building high-impact teams.
We invest in growth and learning opportunities and encourage our people to never stop learning. We foster collaboration and believe in being recognized (and rewarded!) for hard work. We champion a healthy work-life balance. We're kinder than necessary.
Together we build for the future by designing simple solutions for complex problems. And that's why we're the most loved and trusted name in security.
Who you'll work with...
Our team is our secret weapon. We own the spectrum from artists to analysts, low-key to high energy, and bring together a diversity of abilities, experiences, and perspectives to solve what we consider to be the world's most pressing geopolitical challenge - transforming the security industry as we know it. Together we build solutions that are easy, effective, trustworthy, and enduring. And that's why we are the most loved and trusted company in security.
What you'll do...
As a Software Engineer on the Passwordless Authentication team you'll be joining the engineers who take Duo's passwordless solution to market. Your team aims to remove passwords from the equation around access management. We strive to make security simple to understand and easy to use. As a leading Multi-Factor Authentication provider, Duo is positioned to use our existing access and device trust policies to protect passwordless logins and help organizations realize true Passwordless MFA. Help us to evolve the authentication experience in software that is relied on to protect consumer, enterprise, federal, and multinational customers.
Join the push toward our passwordless future on an inclusive team that democratizes security and shares decision making regardless of title. We craft software that protects people from the harm of breaches and data loss.
We are a product company that takes a pragmatic approach to what we do. Our engineers work side by side with our designers, talk directly with customers, and participate in the usability testing process. To succeed, use your equally strong people, operations, and technical skills while championing a user-first product engineering approach.
Skills you have...

• Our engineers at all levels lead projects and bring our teams along with them. We value inclusion, empower autonomy, and emphasize software craftsmanship.
• You embody our values and development culture of collaboration, democracy, testing, CI/CD, data-driven decisions, and mentorship.
• We prioritize team success highest and tend to swarm on sprint work to meet our shared goals.

Even better if you have...

• 3+ years experience as a professional software engineer working in teams with a history of shipping successful SMB and enterprise cloud apps.
• Core programming skills in Python or JavaScript or relational databases.
• Demonstrable experience with any of the following: WebAuthn, OIDC, SAML, FIDO, CTAP, AWS, React.js, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Git
• You have a history of empathizing with users and delivering solutions that meet their problems where they are.
• A pragmatic programmer and problem solver, you can deliver results while not succumbing to analysis paralysis or over-complication.
• You value automated testing as much as clean code and support your peers in their pursuit of artisan level execution and engineering excellence.
• You value team success highest and will swarm with your peers to meet our shared goals. As part of an inclusive team, you champion all teammates regardless of level or background.

Reasons why you should apply...

• You thrive having the autonomy to operate in a meaningful problem space solving real problems for real people.
• You work best within an empathetic team that is passionate about a common goal.
• You are happy when your end-users are happy and frustrated when they are frustrated.

Does this sound like it was written for you? Excellent! Please apply and let's explore this together.
Duo is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness. We are able to grow and learn better together with a diverse team of employees. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, and talent that our employees invest in their work represents not only part of our culture, but our reputation and Duo's achievement as well. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that all potential candidates can bring in terms of their education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, gender identity and expression, nationality, age, languages spoken, veteran's status, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
And if this role is exciting to you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all 100% of the description or qualifications.
Finally and most importantly, we are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer.
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