Senior Software Engineer (PAM)

About this role

Lead the design and development of Bitwarden’s privileged access management platform, including secure gateway services, terminal access, and session auditing. Own services end to end, from architecture and automated testing through deployment and production operations.

About the company

Bitwarden is an open-source password manager for individuals and organizations. It helps teams securely store, share, and manage credentials across devices.

The team

Privileged Access Management (PAM) team; opportunity to help establish Bitwarden’s India Engineering COE.

Stack

What you'll do

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and operate secure gateway controls, audited terminal access, and session recording.
• Maintain decoupled service boundaries and resilient APIs for the PAM platform.
• Collaborate with Product and Design in an embedded cross-functional trio.
• Build automated test suites, integration harnesses, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Own production reliability, performance, observability, and sustainable on-call participation.
• Maintain architecture specifications, API contracts, and developer documentation.
• Lead technical direction and mentor senior engineers.

What we're looking for

• 8+ years of lead software engineering experience, including team leadership and accountability for team outcomes.
• Strong proficiency in AI-assisted development with C#/.NET, Rust, or TypeScript.
• Experience designing or implementing secure gateways, reverse proxies, or SSH, RDP, or HTTPS session proxying.
• Understanding of IAM, key rotation, and real-time audit logging.
• Experience with containers, automated testing, and SRE or observability tools.
• Familiarity with zero-trust and zero-knowledge architectures, encryption standards, and threat modeling.
• Strong collaboration, problem-solving, and written documentation skills.

Nice to have

• Enthusiasm for open source and developer advocacy