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.

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
  • 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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