Senior Manager, Engineering – Identity & Access Management

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

📋 Description

• Lead, nurture, and enhance the IAM Platform engineering team, focusing on hiring, mentorship, performance management, and career advancement.

• Take ownership of delivering ClickUp's enterprise-level access management platform, which encompasses authorization, permissions, authentication, SCIM, sharing primitives, audit logs, OAuth/API tokens, and essential data models and APIs.

• Define the roadmap and set priorities in collaboration with product, security, and engineering leadership.

• Manage an AI-driven team utilizing agents and AI workflows to streamline routing, scoping, reporting on tasks, minimizing disruptions, and eliminating status meetings.

• Collaborate with enterprise clients, GTM, and security teams to address access-control and identity needs.

• Represent ClickUp during enterprise security and architectural evaluations.

• Ensure operational excellence for high-impact services, which includes on-call responsibilities, migrations, reliability, and security protocols.

• Maintain engineering standards for design and code reviews, testing, performance, and security-by-design principles.

• Work collaboratively across backend, frontend, platform, product, design, and information security teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of professional experience in software engineering focused on building production SaaS solutions.

• At least 3 years of experience managing engineering teams, including senior engineers.

• Hands-on experience with identity and access management is essential.

• Familiarity with OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWTs, MFA/2FA, enterprise SSO, SCIM, and RBAC/permissions and role models.

• Ideally, experience in a multi-tenant environment.

• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools and agentic workflows for automating reporting, triage, and status updates.

• Proven track record of delivering enterprise-grade SaaS solutions at scale.

• Experience interacting directly with enterprise clients and addressing security, compliance, and administrative needs.

• History of building and scaling high-performing engineering teams, including hiring, developing, and retaining talent.

• Technical expertise to lead architecture discussions and make informed trade-offs on high-impact systems.

• A security-focused mindset that emphasizes precise access control, a server-side source of truth, accuracy, auditability, and impact assessment.

• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities.

• Daily proficiency with AI tools.

• Preferred: experience with IAM or authorization at scale; configuration-driven or policy-based access models; Zero Trust identity principles; SCIM provisioning; audit logging; SOC 2/ISO 27001 compliance; advancing products to higher markets; AI-native operational frameworks; and managing backend/frontend engineers or leads.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• 401k

• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance

• Spending accounts

• Life & Disability insurance

• Paid parental leave

• Flexible paid time off

• Enhanced employee assistance program

• Employee wellness stipend

• Professional development stipend