This is an individual contributor role with outsized technical scope: you'll be the technical anchor for how Xsolla builds secure, high-scale auth infrastructure — setting direction, making hard architectural calls, and raising the bar across the org. You operate with significant autonomy, but your decisions ripple across teams — so you'll spend real time building buy-in with engineering and security stakeholders, not just designing in isolation. Own IAM Architecture & Strategy — Own the technical strategy and architecture of our IAM platform, covering authentication, authorization, and session management at scale.

Drive Cross-Team Technical Decisions — Drive decisions on protocol design, data modeling, and platform reliability, and build buy-in across engineering and security teams.

De-Risk Proactively — Identify systemic risks and performance bottlenecks; Align with Stakeholders — Collaborate with product, security, and infra teams to align on roadmap and translate business needs into well-scoped technical plans.

Own Production Escalations — Serve as the go-to escalation point for complex production issues in the IAM domain.

Web Security Fundamentals — Solid grasp of cookie security, CSRF, XSS, token storage, TLS, and secure session management.

Domain Context Gaming Industry Experience — Experience working in the video game industry, building or operating platforms for game developers, publishers, or players.

Backend Engineering Go Engineering — Strong Go (Golang) engineering skills: idiomatic code, concurrency patterns, performance profiling.

Data & Infrastructure PostgreSQL — Schema design, query optimization, migrations at scale.

Leadership Cross-Team Initiative Leadership — Proven ability to lead multi-quarter technical initiatives across teams.





Architectural Influence — Track record of influencing architecture and standards beyond your immediate team.

Hands-on experience with the Ory ecosystem (Hydra, Kratos, Keto) — operating it in production or building on top of its APIs

Experience with CockroachDB or other distributed SQL databases (multi-region deployments, clock skew handling, survivability trade-offs)

Familiarity with compliance requirements relevant to IAM: SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR data minimization, audit logging

Contributions to open-source security or identity projects

Experience building or integrating with SCIM, SAML, or enterprise SSO (LDAP / Active Directory)

Background in platform or infrastructure engineering — building systems other engineers build on top of

Hands-on, up-to-date experience with modern AI tools (e.g. Xsolla is a global commerce company with robust tools and services to help developers solve the inherent challenges of the video game industry. From indie to AAA, companies partner with Xsolla to help them fund, distribute, market, and monetize their games.

Grounded in the belief in the future of video games, Xsolla is resolute in the mission to bring opportunities together, and continually make current resources available to creators. Headquartered and incorporated in Los Angeles, California, Xsolla operates as the merchant of record and has helped over 1,500+ game developers to reach more players and grow their businesses around the world. With more paths to profits and ways to win, developers have all the things needed to enjoy the game.

Xsolla operates across multiple time zones, and the IAM platform underpins authentication and authorization for every product we ship. Strong written communication is essential — your architectural decisions and designs need to stand on their own and be actionable without you in the room. We value directness, technical depth, and follow-through.

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