PagerDuty

Software Engineer II - Authorization Team

PagerDuty$113K — $190K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 4 years of experience in designing and operating large systems for performance and scalability.
  • Experience in building customer-facing web-based products.
  • Proficiency in Ruby, React, and AI coding tools.

Responsibilities

  • Design, code, test, and ship backend applications, APIs, and front-end interfaces.
  • Collaborate closely with engineers across teams to ensure product ownership.
  • Solve technical challenges to scale products for over 20,000 global customers.
  • Participate in on-call rotation to triage and resolve production issues.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Company equity options
  • Generous paid vacation and holidays
  • Paid parental leave with substantial time off
  • Company-wide wellness initiatives and hack weeks
  • Paid volunteer time off opportunities.
Full Job Description
Full-Stack Software Engineer

You'll be working on our authentication and authorization platform, a core part of our business that helps organizations securely access and govern the usage of their data within PagerDuty. You'll work across the full stack, including Rails and React, while helping pioneer agentic development practices that treat AI as a first-class engineering partner.

Why we need you

The Authentication and Authorization Team is looking for a passionate software engineer to help build the future security platform for the Operations Cloud. You'll help realize our long-term vision for an innovative, flexible, and extensible identity platform, building the AI-native foundations of highly available services, scalable databases, and secure APIs that underpin both our own users and the growing set of AI and agentic products that rely on PagerDuty for secure access. You'll have plenty of opportunities to partner with product and design on shaping new features for our customers, and you'll help promote engineering excellence across our design, development, test, and release cycles.

Key Responsibilities
  • From day one, you'll be designing, coding, testing and shipping backend applications and microservices, APIs, and front-end interfaces that ensure we deliver secure, highly reliable and scalable solutions to our customers.
  • Since we own and operate what we build, you'll collaborate closely with engineers across teams.
  • With 20,000+ global customers and growing, you'll be solving really interesting technical challenges while helping to scale our product to keep up with demand.
  • Participating in your team's on-call rotation, triaging and addressing production issues as they arise.

Basic Qualifications
  • Minimum of 4 years of experience designing, building, and operating large systems with scalability, availability, and performance requirements.
  • Development experience building and operating customer-facing, web-based products.
  • Demonstrated experience with Ruby, React, and AI coding tools.

Preferred Qualifications
  • You have operational experience in cloud technologies such as AWS
  • You have experience with languages such as Elixir or Java
  • You have operational experience with databases & tools (e.g. MySQL, Aurora, Kafka, NoSQL, applying software engineering principles to data problems, etc.)
  • Experience building user-facing public APIs
  • You've had experience designing & implementing distributed and highly available systems
  • Exposure to or interest in authentication/authorization concepts (e.g. OAuth, SSO, RBAC/ReBAC) a plus

The base salary range for this position is 113,000 - 190,300 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, and/or benefits.

Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range, which is subject to change based on primary work location, reflects the minimum and maximum base salary we expect to pay newly hired employees for the position. Within the range, we determine pay for an individual based on a number of factors including market location, job-related knowledge, skills/competencies and experience.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific offerings for this role, as well as the salary range for your primary work location during the hiring process.

**This role is expected to come into our Atlanta office 2 days a week, so you can thrive in your new role and fully embrace being a Dutonian!**

Hesitant to apply?

We encourage you to submit your resume even if you don't meet every requirement. We value potential and consider each candidate's full professional story. Whether you're exploring a career change or taking your next step, we look forward to reviewing your application. If this just isn't the right role or time - sign up for job alerts!

Where we work

PagerDuty operates a hybrid work model with offices in 8 major cities: Atlanta, Lisbon, London, San Francisco, Santiago, Sydney, Tokyo, and Toronto. While we offer flexibility within our established locations, we cannot employ candidates residing in:

Location restrictions: Australia: Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia
Canada: Alberta, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, PEI, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon
United States: Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming
Candidates must reside in an eligible location, which vary by role.

How we work

Our values guide how we support customers, collaborate with colleagues, develop products, and foster a culture of belonging. They define not just our actions, but what it means to be Dutonian.

People Leaders at PagerDuty are responsible for creating high performance environments that drive accountability. PagerDuty has four key dimensions that define our Leadership Impact: Lead Self, Lead the Team, Lead the Business, and Lead the Future. Each dimension has three associated competencies to give leaders a shared language for guiding their development, career, promotion, and succession planning discussions. Our Manager Expectations serve as a practical guide for managers to understand their responsibilities, prioritize their efforts, and drive engagement and performance.

What we offer

As a global organization, our total rewards approach is competitive with industry standards and aligned with local laws and regulations. Learn more, including country-specific offerings, on our benefits site.

Your package may include:
  • Competitive salary
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Company equity*
  • ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program)*
  • Retirement or pension plan*
  • Generous paid vacation time
  • Paid holidays and sick leave
  • Dutonian Wellness Days & HibernationDuty - companywide paid days off in addition to PTO
  • Paid parental leave: 22 weeks for pregnant parent, 12 weeks for non-pregnant parent (some countries have longer leave standards and we comply with local laws)*
  • Paid volunteer time off: 20 hours per year
  • Company-wide hack weeks
  • Mental wellness programs

*Eligibility may vary by role, region, and tenure

About PagerDuty

PagerDuty is a digital operations management platform that provides reliable notifications, automatic escalations, on-call scheduling, and other functionality to help teams detect and fix infrastructure problems quickly. The company's platform integrates with over 350 third-party tools and services, including AWS, Slack, and Zoom, and is used by over 14,000 organizations worldwide. PagerDuty was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about PagerDuty
Size
950 employees
Market Cap
$2.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$57.2 million
Founded
2009
Revenue
$200.2 million
NASDAQ

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