Engineering Manager – IAM, Go

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of Software Engineers to develop the identity and access management foundation for Bestow’s digital life insurance enrollment platform.

• Allocate around 20% of your time to writing production code.

• Guide the team, influence architectural decisions, and collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and enterprise partners.

• Manage Kubernetes workloads within the Google Cloud Platform.

• Enhance IAM platform scalability to allow enterprise clients to onboard seamlessly without engineering involvement while adhering to security and compliance standards.

• Remain actively engaged in system design, architectural choices, pull request evaluations, code quality assessments, testing, documentation, automation, and quality control measures.

• Work alongside engineers to debug and troubleshoot issues while leading diagnostic efforts.

• Recognize technical debt, devise remediation strategies, and advocate for dedicated resolution time.

• Advance authorization processes for multi-tenant enterprise clients.

• Differentiate authentication from authorization for independent scaling, caching, and policy enforcement.

• Develop token strategies and manage associated vendor relationships.

• Create automated processes for user provisioning and de-provisioning.

• Tackle biometric re-authentication, extended sessions, layered access policies, and compliance audit requirements.

• Engage in the IAM team’s weekly on-call rotation.

• Oversee observability, monitoring, alerting, uptime, incident metrics, and incident response strategies.

• Recruit, interview, hire, onboard, mentor, and cultivate engineers.

• Conduct one-on-one meetings, establish development plans, offer stretch assignments, and manage team conflicts.

• Set expectations, provide constructive feedback, perform performance evaluations, and address instances of underperformance.

• Translate product needs into technical plans, estimate capacity and timelines, and ensure delivery aligns with estimates.

• Take ownership of the team’s roadmap and daily task prioritization.

• Monitor delivery metrics and present them during monthly operational reviews.

• Determine IAM’s technical direction and align company strategy with team-level initiatives through RFCs, PRD contributions, and task tickets.

• Communicate project status, progress, and potential risks to stakeholders, senior leadership, and external partners.

• Link technical efforts to business outcomes and clearly define cost-benefit trade-offs.

• Demonstrate the use of AI coding tools, establish standards for review, testing, and attribution, and enhance the team’s AI methodologies.

• Foster an environment conducive to experimentation and learning from unsuccessful attempts.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of professional software development experience.

• At least 1 year of direct management experience leading a team of Software Engineers while remaining hands-on with coding.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• Professional experience with Go, or another statically typed backend language with a clear progression to Go.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes or a similar container orchestration solution.

• Familiarity with PostgreSQL or another relational database and ANSI SQL.

• Experience in designing modern distributed systems and APIs.

• Competence in using Docker for local development.

• Experience with Protocol Buffers, OpenAPI, or Swagger.

• Comprehensive understanding of the entire software development lifecycle, continuous integration, and release strategies.

• Practical experience with agentic coding tools in a production environment.

• Ability to monitor key metrics and fulfill established Service Level Agreements.

• Skill in dissecting ambiguous technical challenges and identifying risks at an early stage.

• Capability to pick up and deliver work within team codebases.

• E-Verify employment eligibility verification for newly hired individuals.

• IAM experience with Auth0, Okta, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, multi-tenant architecture, RBAC/ABAC/policy-based access control, SAML 2.0, OIDC, and SCIM is highly preferred but not mandatory.

• Direct experience with Claude Code is preferred; similar experience with Cursor or GitHub Copilot is also relevant.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity based on the role.

• Flexible paid time off policy.

• Parental leave programs available.

• 100% premium coverage option for medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Lifestyle stipend to support physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.

• Flexible work-from-home policy.

• Remote work opportunities.

• A state-of-the-art office located in Dallas’ Deep Ellum for those who prefer working in an office environment.

• Employee-driven initiatives focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• Bonus compensation opportunities.