Principal Engineer, Identity and Access Management

Job description

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 Our Interview Practices To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts.

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