Software Engineer, IAM Remote
Hernando, DeSoto County, Mississippi, 38632, USA
Listed on 2026-02-12
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity, Systems Engineer, IT Consultant, IT Support
The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute open-source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms.
About this role:
Mozilla IAM team seeks a Staff Software Engineer to rebuild our Identity and Access Management (IAM) system. Our IAM modernization project aims to enhance scalability, security, user experience, and position IAM as a platform offering within the infrastructure organization. This role would report through our SRE organization.
What you’ll do:
- Architect and lead IAM system redesign, emphasizing user experience and scalability.
- Guide technical decision-making and adoption of user-centric solutions.
- Guide team members and promote engineering standard methodologies, with a focus on usability and maintainability.
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration for efficient and cohesive platform delivery.
- Drive automation and self-service capabilities in IAM, ensuring robust security, compliance, and improved user satisfaction.
- Meet with engineering teams across Mozilla to understand their needs and concerns around access management.
- Document standard methodologies and design guidelines
- Be trusted to resolve unclear but urgent tasks
Why Mozilla?
Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies.
Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people.
The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute open-source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms.
About this role:
Mozilla IAM team seeks a Staff Software Engineer to rebuild our Identity and Access Management (IAM) system. Our IAM modernization project aims to enhance scalability, security, user experience, and position IAM as a platform offering within the infrastructure organization. This role would report through our SRE organization.
What you’ll do:
- Architect and lead IAM system redesign, emphasizing user experience and scalability.
- Guide technical decision-making and adoption of user-centric solutions.
- Guide team members and promote engineering standard methodologies, with a focus on usability and maintainability.
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration for efficient and cohesive platform delivery.
- Drive automation and self-service capabilities in IAM, ensuring robust security, compliance, and improved user satisfaction.
- Meet with engineering teams across Mozilla to understand their needs and concerns around access management.
- Document standard methodologies and design guidelines
- Be trusted to resolve unclear but urgent tasks
- 8+ years experience in software engineering with at least 5 years of extensive IAM expertise.
- Proven technical leadership experience.
- Expertise in AuthN, AuthZ, and access governance.
- Deep knowledge of identity lifecycle management and access governance.
- Proficient in Python, JavaScript.
- Strong expertise in GCP and cloud-native technologies.
- Excellent communication skills aligning technology with user needs and organizational goals.
- Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity.
- Curiosity and interest in learning new things
- Commitment to our values:
- Welcoming differences
- Being relationship-minded
- Practicing responsible participation
- Having grit
- Experience with distributed systems architecture and design
- Knowledge of cloud…
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