Principal Engineer, Identity and Access Management
Listed on 2026-10-12
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Software Development
Backend Developer, Software Architect
Lead the design and engineering of a cloud-agnostic Identity and Authorization Platform that secures users, services, APIs, AI agents, and data across a multi-tenant SaaS platform.
Unlike traditional IAM roles, this position focuses heavily on authorization architecture.
Responsibilities- Lead architecture and implementation of:
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Identity federation
- Fine-grained access control
- Own architecture for:
- RBAC
- ReBAC
- ABAC
- ACL
- Policy engines
- Relationship graphs
- Design authorization for:
- Web applications
- Mobile
- APIs
- Microservices
- AI Gateway
- Agent runtime
- MCP tools
- Design authorization decision architecture:
- PEP
- PDP
- Policy Store
- Relationship Store
- Decision
- Lead adoption of:
- OpenFGA / SpiceDB
- Cedar
- Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Zanzibar concepts
- Work with platform teams on:
- API Gateway
- AI Gateway
- Kubernetes
- Service Mesh
- mTLS
- 10+ years engineering
- 5+ years security platform experience
- Demonstrable experience building authorization engines using:
- RBAC
- ReBAC
- ABAC
- ACL
- Experience designing authorization for:
- Multi-tenant SaaS
- Microservices
- APIs
- Experience with:
- OAuth2
- OpenID Connect
- JWT
- SAML
- Strong distributed systems experience
- Google Zanzibar
- OpenFGA
- SpiceDB
- OPA
- Cedar
- Envoy
- Istio
- SPIFFE/SPIRE
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