Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access – AI Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the technical strategy for AuthN, AuthZ, and OBO within the Agentic Data Platform and Cloud platform.

• Determine which emerging industry trends Redpanda should embrace, modify, or disregard.

• Enhance the OAuth 2.1 authorization server and token vault.

• Develop delegated tool-access workflows and a cryptographic delegation model for verifiable on-behalf-of authority chains.

• Collaborate with identity-federation systems such as Okta, Entra, Ping, and similar providers.

• Work alongside the Agentic Data Plane, Cloud platform engineering, Security, and Product teams.

• Represent Redpanda's technical stance in discussions regarding customer security, documentation, and standards initiatives.

• Deliver production-ready systems to clients.

• Provide mentorship to engineers across the Agentic Data Platform and Cloud platform without formal management authority.

• Raise systemic issues and obstacles to engineering leadership.

• Engage in strategic discussions with peers and Directors.

• Monitor progress, evaluate risks, and communicate contingency and mitigation strategies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in software development and delivery, with extensive hands-on expertise in authentication, authorization, or identity systems.

• Production experience with OAuth 2.0/2.1, OIDC, token exchange, or delegation patterns (e.g., RFC 8693, on-behalf-of flows).

• Practical experience managing an authorization server and token vault at scale.

• Current perspective on agent identity standards, including MCP auth, A2A, and cross-application access patterns.

• Experience integrating with customers' existing identity providers like Okta, Entra, or Ping in security-focused enterprise settings.

• Proven ability to steer technical direction across multiple teams or organizations as an individual contributor.

• Experience working with globally dispersed engineering teams and actively contributing on GitHub.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Direct experience with OAuth 2.1/OIDC authorization servers, token vaults, or comparable identity infrastructure is emphasized.

• Experience with agent-specific identity or delegation protocols is emphasized.

• Involvement with relevant open standards organizations or working groups is emphasized.

• Experience in regulated or security-sensitive enterprise environments is emphasized.

• Prior experience as a Staff/Principal-level individual contributor is emphasized.

🏝️ Benefits

• Access to the latest AI tools and budget for their use.

• A diverse, people-centric organization.

• A culture founded on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness.

• A globally distributed team.

• Human hiring decisions following AI-assisted screening and evaluation.