Principal Engineer, Identity and Access Management

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.

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 Knowledge Graph Vector stores 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 Essential experience 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 Nice to have Google Zanzibar OpenFGA SpiceDB OPA Cedar Envoy Istio SPIFFE/SPIRE

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