SSO & Keycloak Expert – Remote (Czech Republic/Slovakia)

About the role

Build and evolve components in our self‑developed identity and security platform used across 150+ global sites. As a Lead Developer you’ll own the technical direction of key services, from design to production, and collaborate closely with a dedicated SRE team.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of cloud‑native services and platform components (security, IAM/SSO, data/observability).
• Translate product and security requirements into robust architectures and high‑quality implementations.
• Drive engineering best practices such as code quality, testing, reviews, CI/CD and secure‑by‑design.
• Collaborate with SREs to ensure reliability, scalability and operational excellence (SLIs/SLOs, incident learnings, hardening).
• Mentor engineers and enable the team to deliver sustainably and confidently.

Required profile

• Professional software engineering experience with ownership of production systems.
• Strong hands‑on development skills (ideally Java; TypeScript and Go are a plus).
• Solid understanding of microservices and Kubernetes‑based delivery.
• Good grasp of security fundamentals (authentication/authorization, secure coding; familiarity with SSO protocols like OIDC/OAuth/SAML is a plus).
• Experience with modern platform components such as streaming, analytics and observability stacks is beneficial.
• Interest or experience in IT security (threat modeling, secure architecture, vulnerability management, security testing) is beneficial.
• Fluent in English (German is a plus).

Required skills

• Java
• TypeScript
• Go
• Kubernetes
• OIDC
• OAuth
• SAML
• Kafka
• Flink
• PostgreSQL
• Neo4j
• Grafana
• Elasticsearch
• GitOps
• IaC
• CI/CD

What we offer

• Salary starts at 3,000 EUR (dependent on experience).
• Remote role within the Czech Republic or Slovakia.
• Inclusive culture focused on curiosity, innovation and personal growth.