Tempus
Staff Software Engineer, Security
$200K–$310K
Chicago +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- Chicago
Redwood City - Experience
- Several years of experience working on software development teams; no specific number of years stated.
About the job
Sets the technical direction for security engineering and builds identity, authentication, authorization, and observability systems to protect patient data and intellectual property, including as they are used by generative AI.
What you'll do
- Lead security architecture and build-versus-buy decisions; establish engineering standards and improve security tooling and microservices.
- Develop customer identity and authentication systems and secure distributed, event-based systems across a microservices architecture.
- Coordinate with teams and stakeholders, and strengthen engineering practice through documentation, mentorship, and training.
What they ask for
- Experience setting technical vision and direction for a product area and leading technical analysis, design, and tradeoff decisions.
- Experience developing and securing distributed, event-based systems at scale.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure providers and related tools such as Docker, Terraform, or Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with an identity management platform such as Auth0, Okta, Microsoft Entra, or Ping Identity.
Nice to have
- Deep knowledge of identity standards such as OAuth, SCIM, and SAML; experience with OAuth 2.1 emerging agentic controls.
- Experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.JS, or Python; Chronicle or other SIEMs; or authorization models such as RBAC, ReBAC, ABAC, and PBAC.
Pay
USD 200,000 - USD 260,000 base salary (CHI); USD 240,000 - USD 310,000 base salary (CA)
Tools
OAuth, SAML, SCIM, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes
AI focus
Architect and secure emerging agentic controls and distributed event-based systems so patient records and intellectual property can be safely used by generative AI technologies.
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