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Senior Software Engineer - Access Control

New York, NYOnsiteFull TimeSenior$160,000–$240,000 /yrPosted 9 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • Access Control
  • Entitlement Enforcement
  • Access Governance
  • Secure Data Access
  • High Availability
  • Resilience
  • Transparency
  • Data Security
  • Risk Management
  • Privilege Management

Nice to have

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Microservices
  • Distributed Architecture
  • Complex Workflows
  • Middleware

Role summary

Bloomberg is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Access Control team, which is central to the company's security infrastructure. This role involves designing, developing, and releasing high-quality software for entitlement enforcement, access governance, and secure data access across enterprise applications. The engineer will own products, collaborate with business partners and stakeholders, and contribute to building scalable, highly available, and resilient access systems. The position requires 5+ years of experience in C++, Java, C#, and/or Python, with preferred experience in distributed systems, Linux environments, middleware, caching, database design, and CI/CD practices.

Senior Software Engineer - Access Control

Description & Requirements

The Access Control team sits at the center of Bloomberg’s security infrastructure. Our platforms power entitlement enforcement, access governance, and secure data access across Bloomberg’s internal applications and infrastructure. The systems we build are deeply integrated into critical Bloomberg workflows and are designed to operate at enterprise scale with high availability, resilience, and transparency.

Our Team:
The Access Control team safeguards Bloomberg’s data and functionality through modern, highly available access control infrastructure. We play a critical role in Bloomberg’s data security and risk management initiatives - protecting information across every layer of the company’s technical stack.

Our team builds and maintains enterprise-grade applications and services that power privilege management workflows and policy enforcement across Bloomberg. The entitlement checking infrastructure we own is among the most heavily used at the company, underpinning Bloomberg Terminal functions and internal enterprise platforms.

We develop scalable systems and tooling that provide:

  • Enterprise-wide entitlement enforcement and access governance
  • Infrastructure for policy enforcement and auditability
  • Automated workflows for secure access management
  • Internal applications and tooling integrated into the Bloomberg Terminal
  • Highly available entitlement infrastructure supporting critical Bloomberg workflows

Our work requires deep technical expertise and close collaboration across engineering, infrastructure, and risk stakeholders to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable access systems. In a rapidly evolving security landscape, we build future-proof solutions that help protect Bloomberg’s data and services at global scale.


We'll trust you to:

In this role, you will work closely with our business partners to identify critical problems and architect the solutions that can effectively protect sensitive data while reducing the need for human intervention. The software solutions that you create will directly affect the daily work of our internal users.

We'll expect you to be:

· The owner of the product - you will work closely with the business to build effective and user-friendly products

· A solid team player - you will work within the team and outside the team in a highly, collaborative environment

· Innovative - you need to think outside of the box when coming up with technical solutions that deliver business value

· Passionate - you're passionate about our diverse set of users and products

· Proactive - you'll contribute ideas on everything from UI, product, tech stack and our development flow


You'll need to have:

· 5+ years of professional experience designing, developing, and releasing high-quality software in C++, Java, C#, and/or Python

· A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience


We'd love to see:

· Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript

· Strong analytical and creative problem solving skills

· Professional experience working in a Linux environment

· Collaborate effectively with multiple teams and product stakeholders to deliver products

· Microservices / Distributed architecture / complex workflows experience.

· Prior work with middleware technology (e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ)

· Experience with caching technology (e.g. Redis, memCached)

· Database schema design, performance optimization skills and query tuning

· Familiar with unit testing, CI/CD and Dev-Ops


Salary Range = 160,000 - 240,000 USD Annual + Benefits + Bonus
The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.
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