Senior Staff Software Engineer, Platform - IAM

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the comprehensive multi-year technical strategy for Identity and Access Management (IAM) from start to finish.

• Develop an integrated architecture that combines workforce, AI agent, and service/workload identity with shared components for authentication, authorization, provisioning, and governance.

• Lead architectural decisions across various pods and teams without having direct management authority.

• Set standards, establish review bars, and create integration contracts for engineering teams.

• Formulate an adoption strategy for over 700 systems, including sequencing, migration paths, and make-or-buy decisions.

• Collaborate with Security, Compliance, IT, Infrastructure, and product engineering leadership to convert UAR, SOX, and SOC 2 requirements into automated controls and self-generating evidence.

• Oversee the data model and tools to clarify who has access to what resources and the rationale behind it.

• Minimize standing privileges while ensuring the secure path remains efficient.

• Provide mentorship to staff and senior engineers, enhancing organizational expertise in identity management.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 12 years of experience in software engineering.

• Proven history as the leading technical authority on a platform that spans multiple teams, with a multi-year architecture that has been successfully adopted by numerous consuming teams.

• Extensive IAM knowledge across multiple domains, including significant experience with service or workload identity.

• Familiarity with service-to-service authentication, workload identity federation, or machine credential management at scale.

• Experience in production-level Go programming.

• Expertise in designing distributed systems on AWS.

• Proficiency in OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, and workload identity patterns.

• Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority at senior levels.

• Capability to translate audit and regulatory requirements into automated technical controls.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills suitable for executive audiences.

• Ethical use of generative AI with appropriate human oversight.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for equity and bonuses.

• Comprehensive medical insurance.

• Dental insurance coverage.

• Vision insurance options.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Quarterly in-person working sessions (“surges”).

• Reasonable accommodations available for individuals with disabilities.

• Complimentary compatible screen reader for applicants requiring screen reading technology.