Platform Engineer - Auth

About the job

As a Platform Engineer - Serverless at Appwrite, you'll be instrumental in shaping the core infrastructure of our platform’s serverless Functions ecosystem. You’ll work on designing, building, and maintaining backend services with a specific emphasis on secure authentication and authorisation capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and improve secure authentication and authorization flows, while also developing and enhancing Appwrite’s Functions ecosystem

• Develop and maintain full-stack features with a strong focus on PHP-based backend systems, Appwrite’s core backend is written in PHP.

• Build, deploy, and manage serverless functions infrastructure, while also ensuring robust integration with authentication services such as OAuth, JWT, API key management, and access controls.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Security) to implement best-practice security standards and contribute to overall platform architecture.

• Author and support RESTful and GraphQL APIs that enforce robust authentication and authorization logic.

• Monitor execution performance, security logs, and system metrics; proactively identify and resolve auth-related issues.

• Participate in code reviews, encourage secure development practices, and uphold the platform's reliability and developer experience.

• Mentor junior engineers and take incremental ownership over auth architecture, with the opportunity to grow into leading the future Auth team.
  

Requirements

• Strong experience with backend development, ideally including PHP or similar server-side languages

• Proven expertise in designing and implementing authentication/authorization flows (e.g., OAuth 2.0, JWT, session-based auth, role-based access control).

• Experience developing and consuming APIs; understanding of REST and/or GraphQL paradigms.

• Familiarity with authentication standards and security best practices (e.g., MFA, token issuance, secure storage, cryptography fundamentals).

• Background working with serverless or backend infrastructure and CI/CD workflows.

• Solid understanding of relational databases (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL) and technologies like Redis for caching or pub/sub scenarios.

• A proactive mindset, excellent cross-team communication skills, and a passion for enabling developer productivity in open-source environments.
  
  

Benefits

🏠 100% Remote

Our entire company is distributed, so we take remote work seriously. If you’d rather not work from home, we will cover the cost of a coworking or office space.

📈 Stock Options

Get generous stock options for a company that is growing blazing fast and is backed by top VCs 

🕰 Flexible Hours & Days

We're a remote team working in different time zones, from UTC+06:00 to UTC-06:00. Choose the hours and days that work best for you!

🏥 Healthcare

Employees receive generous medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. Full-time contractors will have the cost of healthcare factored into their salary. Our recruiting team can help confirm which applies to you.

❤️ Github Sponsorship of Your Choice

We would love to give an annual sponsorship to any GitHub project of your choice!

🎓 Learning

Appwrite provides $3,000 USD for employees to attend conferences, take classes, or otherwise further their education.

✈️ Gatherings

We typically meet up couple times a year in person for work and fun! What will be our next location? NYC, London, LA, or Barcelona? Help us decide!

🖥 Top Notch Equipment

Appwrite will let you choose a new laptop of your choice (up to $3,000 USD) and will reimburse up to $500 USD for office expenses.

🧦 Unlimited SWAGS

At Appwrite, we really love Swags. Each new team member gets unlimited credits to grab any official Appwrite Swag that they wish.