Senior Engineer, Identity & Access Management; IAM

About Riot Platforms

Riot’s (NASDAQ: RIOT) vision is to be the world’s most trusted platform for powering and building digital infrastructure.

Riot’s mission is to empower the future of digital infrastructure by positivelyimpactingthe sectors, networks, and communities that we touch. We believe that the combination of an innovative spirit and strong community partnership allows us to achieve best-in-class execution and create successful outcomes.

Who we are

At Riot,we’rebuilding the future of digital infrastructure. Our team members have unparalleled opportunities to work on groundbreaking initiatives. Through technical excellence and strategic execution, Riot has positioned itself as a leader in the industry driving advancements that continue to set new benchmarks in digital infrastructure.

Weare trailblazers. Problem solvers. People who thrive in fast paced environments,communicate clearly, and bring relentless focus to efficiency and execution.

About the role

Riot Platforms is seeking a Senior Engineer, Identity & Access Management (IAM) to design, implement, and operate modern identity security capabilities across our enterprise, cloud, SaaS, and data center environments. This role will be hands-on and highly technical, with responsibility for building secure, scalable, and automated identity solutions that support Riot’s continued growth into AI/HPC and data center operations.

The Senior IAM Engineer will work closely with Cybersecurity, IT, Cloud, Infrastructure, Data Center Operations, People Operations, and GRC.

This position will be based in our Austin office. Relocation assistance is available for non-local candidates.

What you'll do

• Design, implement, and support IAM solutions across Microsoft Entra , Active Directory, SaaS, cloud, and data center environments .
• Manage and optimize SSO, Conditional Access, MFA, passwordless authentication, PIM, RBAC, and identity lifecycle controls .
• Implement and maintain Privileged Access Management (PAM) capabilities, including privileged account onboarding, credential rotation, session controls, and removal of standing access.
• Support Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) processes including joiner/mover/leaver workflows, access reviews, entitlement management, and role-based access.
• Automate user and access provisioning using technologies such as SCIM, APIs, scripting, Power Shell, and workflow automation .
• Engineer secure access for vendors, contractors, partners, and other third-party users .
• Develop and maintain controls for service accounts, application identities, API access, secrets, certificates, and other non-human identities .
• Integrate enterprise applications with SSO using SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and related standards .
• Troubleshoot authentication, authorization, provisioning, and federation issues.
• Partner with Cybersecurity Operations to investigate identity-related threats, anomalous authentication, credential compromise, and privilege escalation .
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, standards, and operating procedures.
• Support IAM-related audit and compliance activities, including SOX, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 evidence and control testing.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual processes, strengthen security, and improve the user experience.

What you'll bring

• 5+ years of IAM, cybersecurity engineering, identity engineering, or related technical experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft identity technologies, especially Entra  Active Directory .
• Demonstrated experience integrating enterprise applications with SSO and automated provisioning.
• Experience implementing or supporting PAM, PIM, Conditional Access, MFA, and access governance.
• Strong…