Identity and Access Management Engineer

We're looking for a Staff IAM engineer to design, implement, and manage identity and access management (IAM) and identity governance (IGA) solutions across Tanium's corporate infrastructure. You'll evaluate new IAM/IGA technologies, partner with cross-functional teams on strategy, and keep our identity ecosystem secure, compliant, and efficient.

This position follows the Company’s hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the office at one of the following locations a minimum of three days per week:
Addison, TX;
Bellevue, WA;
Durham, NC;
Emeryville, CA; or Reston, VA.

• Design and manage IAM/IGA solutions across corporate infrastructure, including SSO, MFA, and PAM
• Build and maintain identity automation - onboarding, off-boarding, entitlements, and approval workflows - and troubleshoot issues surfaced by testing, user, or peer feedback
• Own the identity lifecycle: monitor, document, and continuously improve it
• Partner with GRC to develop and maintain IAM/IGA policies and standards that satisfy regulatory requirements (ISO 27001, FedRAMP, GDPR, HIPAA, etc.)
• Assess IAM systems regularly for security gaps and insure ongoing patch and policy compliance
• Lead technical delivery on IAM/IGA projects - upgrades, migrations, integrations - and monitor system performance to identify optimizations
• Respond to and resolve IAM-related incidents
• Mentor engineers across IT and Security and track industry trends to keep our IAM/IGA approach current
• Maintain system design documentation

• Education
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT or other relevant degree or equivalent work experience
• Experience
  • 8–10 years in identity and access management, including IGA integrations with HRIS systems (Workday, Success Factors, or similar)
  • Experience implementing, configuring, and managing an IGA product like Lumos, SailPoint, Saviynt, etc
  • Hands‑on expertise with Entra  Active Directory (preferably in a hybrid environment) with respect to identity and access
  • Solid grasp of onboarding/off-boarding standards and lifecycle workflows
  • Scripting proficiency (Power Shell)
  • Working knowledge of security/compliance frameworks - ISO 27001, FedRAMP, GDPR, HIPAA
  • Experience with SSO, MFA, and PAM tooling
  • Strong problem‑solving skills and the communication chops to work across IT, Security, and business teams
• Other
  • Comfortable working independently and juggling multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment

Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. As Al accelerates both innovation and risk, Tanium Atlas, the company's autonomous operating system, puts the full depth of the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform behind every IT and security operator - human and agentic. Tanium provides the real‑time intelligence, agentic decision‑making, and autonomous execution operators needed to detect, decide, and remediate at machine speed across their endpoint estate.

The company is recognized as a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools, as a Leader in the IDC Market Scape:
Worldwide Client Endpoint Management Software for Windows Device Management  Vendor Assessment, and as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™. Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026.

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