Directory Services Engineer i Stockholm

Engineering at Klarna is an inspired, customer focused community, dedicated to crafting solutions that redefine our industry. Working in small, highly collaborative Agile teams, you and your team will have a clear mission and ownership of an important outcome that supports Klarna and our customers. At Klarna we optimize for quality, flow, fast feedback, focusing on end-to-end ownership, continuous improvement, testing, monitoring and experimentation. We aim for teams that are inclusive, helpful, and have a strong sense of ownership for the things they build. 

Engineering is rapidly growing and we are looking for talented professionals to help us shape how we work with directories in Klarna nowadays and in the future. A very complex environment with lots of technologies needs to be streamlined and optimized so that it better supports our current and future challenges. Our goal is to optimize for reliability and scalability, and there will be many situations with unsolved challenges. Therefore there is great room for creativity, and there are many important and interesting problems/challenges to work on.

What you will do:

• Take operational responsibility for the directory services used for authentication, authorization and federation
• Evolve the directory services and their capabilities and features by participating in design, development and roadmap activities with Klarna stakeholders
• Review existing services-integrations and optimize and enhance them
• Support Klarna stakeholders (system owners, developers) by helping them to easily onboard to the services

Some of the things you’ll get to work with:

• OpenLdap
• Okta
• Google Directory & Federation
• Scripting and deployment tools

You must have:

• At least 5 years of working with Directory Services in a high availability environment
• Experience with Open Ldap in a enterprise environment
• Experience in managing federations and SSO configurations
• Experience in automation and operations in a code based infrastructure
• Knowledge in SAML, Oauth and OIDC
• Knowledge in common Identity and Access management concepts and standards
• Knowledge in automation of operational tasks

You may also have:

• Python programming experience
• Ansible
• AWS knowledge

How to apply: Please send us your CV or LinkedIn profile in English.

With our diversity of skills, perspectives and backgrounds, we can create, innovate, and disrupt like no other. Diversity is part of who we are, and essential to our success.

Here, every voice matters. We’re organized into hundreds of small teams, each run like a start-up, focused on their own problem-space.

Successes and failures are won together at Klarna in a melting pot of teams. Win, lose, and learn, we’re on this path together.

If you love what you do, you should love where you do it. We appreciate that everyone’s different and has their own preferences of where and how to work. We genuinely believe in the power of regular face-to-face interactions in building close connections with our teams, but we also strongly believe people can work effectively remotely. This means that combining both is the key to success. 

At Klarna, You can choose between working from the office, remotely within your employment country, or even outside of it for up to 20 working days per year. Flex it up!  

Additionally, we’re providing each Klarnaut with a contribution and equipment to improve this flexible work life. Use it to glow up that personal home office space, or upgrade those work accessories.

We take a very Swedish approach to benefits. Support for parents, health and wellness perks—we’ve got you covered.

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