Software Engineer, Identity & Enterprise Platform

Sierra • San Francisco, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

At Sierra, we’re creating a platform to help businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices in Atlanta, New York, London, France, Singapore, and Japan.
We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.
Our co-founders are Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.
You’ll design and build the foundational systems and capabilities that enable Sierra to serve the world’s largest and most demanding enterprises. This includes the identity, access management, integration points, and extensibility that enterprise customers require to allow customers to embed Sierra into their existing ecosystems.
Our enterprise customers have complex environments, strict security requirements, and high expectations for reliability. You’ll ensure Sierra’s platform scales across organizations, regions, and use cases while maintaining performance and simplicity.
Enterprise customers trust Sierra with their most sensitive workflows and data. You’ll help set and uphold a high bar for security, compliance readiness, reliability, and operational excellence across the platform.

Requirements

• A passion for being on the frontier of AI products.
• Pride in building reliable, maintainable, and secure systems that scale.
• Motivation and high-agency to drive outcomes - we have a high-autonomy culture and each team member has lots of agency to overcome obstacles and achieve customer impact.
• Alignment to our company values throughout your work, notably finding a balance between Craftsmanship, Customer Obsession, and Competitive Intensity.
• 4+ years hands-on experience building production products and systems.
• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building enterprise features such as SSO, RBAC, IAM, audit logs, or compliance-adjacent systems.
• Experience with integrations, APIs, and working with complex customer environments.
• Backend-leaning full-stack experience building enterprise SaaS applications.
• Security-adjacent experience (e.g., auth, permissions, data isolation, threat modeling).
• Experience building AI-powered products or platforms.

Responsibilities

• Build Sierra’s enterprise platform capabilities.
• Scale with our largest customers.
• Form the foundation of trust.

Benefits

• Flexible (Unlimited) Paid Time Off
• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
• Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
• Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K, pension) with Sierra match
• Parental Leave
• Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
• Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee to keep you energized
• Discretionary Benefit Stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most
• Free alphorn lessons

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level