Used Tools & Technologies
Not specified
Required Skills & Competences
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value.
About proficiency levels:
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Security @ 4
Go @ 6
Python @ 6
Java @ 6
Distributed Systems @ 4
Communication @ 7
Mathematics @ 4
API @ 4
OAuth @ 4
.NET @ 4
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Details
Every day, Bloomberg’s clients rely on secure and seamless access to our products. Our team builds infrastructure that verifies identities of clients and employees. We design systems that are fast, secure, resilient, and highly available, capable of handling large volumes of authentication traffic around the clock.
What We Own
- Single Sign-On (SSO) Infrastructure used company-wide and by clients
- Identity Brokering
- Self Service tooling for management and troubleshooting of SSO integrations
- Customer Credentials Management
- Impersonation and Delegation Access
Why join our team?
We are embarking on an initiative to modernize and unify Bloomberg’s authentication landscape for a modern identity ecosystem. Your work will directly affect the experience of Bloomberg’s employees and clients worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Lead design and development of Bloomberg’s next-generation authentication systems, aligning with future product goals.
- Create scalable, end-to-end identity solutions across web, API, and proprietary technologies.
- Build tools to simplify authentication integration for internal and external teams, ensuring applications have a high level of default security.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners across product, design, and engineering.
- Participate in knowledge-sharing sessions, internal meetups, and industry conferences.
Requirements
- Experience guiding the architecture of large scale systems.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- 4+ years working with an object-oriented programming language (C/C++, Python, Java, Go, etc.).
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a similar field of study, or equivalent work experience.
Preferred / Nice-to-have Qualifications
- Demonstrated expertise in security and authentication concepts.
- Experience working with authentication and authorization protocols (especially OAuth / OIDC).
- Experience developing or operating OpenID Providers, Authorization Servers, and Identity Providers.
- Experience working on delegated access and federated identity management systems or identity brokers.
- Deep understanding of OAuth, OIDC, SAML, FIDO or similar protocols.
- Experience with open authentication standards (e.g., Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol, Shared Signals Framework, Zero Trust Architecture).
- Experience building and maintaining mission-critical infrastructure and scaling distributed systems.
- Experience championing new company-wide standards for security practices.
- Participation in public authentication standards development, academic research, presentations at security conferences, or certification/experience in penetration testing and cybersecurity.
Salary
Salary Range: 160,000 - 240,000 USD Annual + Benefits + Bonus
The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.
Benefits
Bloomberg offers a comprehensive benefits plan which may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) with match, life insurance, and various wellness programs. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.
Location & Business Area
Location: New York
Business Area: Engineering and CTO
Apply
Apply link: https://bloomberg.avature.net/careers/Login?jobId=20651