Staff Security Engineer, IAM

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An overview of this role

The Corporate Security Identity Team is on a mission to transform how our workforce ecosystem securely accesses the tools they need to do their best work, advancing from foundational controls to sophisticated, automated governance across our identity platforms and our emerging AI tooling.

As a Staff Security Engineer, you'll be a senior technical leader and strategic anchor on the team.

You're passionate about designing elegant solutions to complex identity challenges, whether that's architecting enterprise-scale conditional access policies, codifying our configuration of our identity platforms, or building governance frameworks for AI agents and non-human identities.

You'll be responsible for critical systems, write technical proposals that influence our roadmap, raise the bar through design and code review, and lead cross-functional initiatives that span Security, IT, Engineering, Compliance and People teams.

We're deliberately moving off click-ops and low-code platforms. Configuration is becoming peer-reviewed code; automation is becoming tested code running on GCP Cloud Run. Join us to lean in!

What you’ll do

Design comprehensive identity and AI access solutions that scale with our business growth, from AI agent governance frameworks to privileged access workflows that eliminate standing access through just-in-time provisioning

Replace low-code automation with engineered services, migrating our existingiPaaS automation to Python services on GCP Cloud Run with source control, tests, CI and observability

Codify our identity platforms in Terraform/OpenTofu/Pulumi , leading the migration of Okta, Lumos, and our NHI platform from click-ops to peer-reviewed infrastructure-as-code, with a focus on global critical policies

Help re-architect identity and access across our GCP and AWS organizations, partnering on resource hierarchy design, secure-by-default guardrails (org policies, SCPs, permission boundaries), workload identity federation, and a credible path to least privilege for both human and workload access

Lead identity and access engineering for our enterprise AI platforms including administration, SSO and SCIM integration, audit logging, data controls, and policy enforcement for Claude (web, Claude Code, Cowork) and adjacent tools

Pioneer non-human identity governance by designing monitoring and management solutions for service accounts, API keys, certificates, AI agents, and MCP integrations, and leading deployment, integration, and operationalization of our NHI platform across the SaaS estate

Drive cross-functional initiatives with Security, IT, Engineering, Enterprise AI, and the Office of the CIO to extract requirements from ambiguous business needs and translate them into actionable technical specifications

Mentor senior and intermediate engineers on technical implementation and strategic thinking, helping them develop expertise in modern identity and AI security practices

What you’ll bring

Extensive IAM experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale solutions, with demonstrated time at a Staff or senior IC level

Expert-level Okta expertise including Identity Engine, advanced authentication policies, lifecycle workflows, and API automation

Strong infrastructure-as-code practice with Terraform/OpenTofu/Pulumi , including provider experience for SaaS identity platforms and a track record of migrating click-ops to code

Proficiency writing and shipping Python as a software engineer designed as modular, tested, code-reviewed, deployed as services (GCP Cloud Run or equivalent serverless runtime) and instrumented for failure

Cloud identity depth in GCP and/or AWS , including resource hierarchy and organization design, IAM policy models, workload identity federation, and preventive controls such as org policies, SCPs, and permission boundaries

Hands-on experience administering or governing enterprise AI platforms (Anthropic Claude preferred; OpenAI ChatGPT Enterprise, Google Gemini Enterprise, or similar acceptable), and awareness of AI-specific risks including prompt injection, MCP attack surface, agent identity, and data leakage

A working practice of building with AI tooling you use agentic tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) in your daily engineering work, iterate on your own workflows as capabilities shift, and can bring the rest of the team along. The tooling landscape changes monthly and identity is at the center of it; we want someone whose instincts stay current because they're a practitioner

Experience with IGA platforms like Lumos, ConductorOne, or similar, with a preference for managing them declaratively

Experience in regulated environments with knowledge of compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, SOC2, SOX), including change management, evidence collection, and audit support

Nice to have Qualifications

Passion for emerging identity challenges including AI agent governance, non-human identity management, zero-trust architecture, and behavioral analytics

Experience carrying a cloud org restructuring through to completion , including the migration and stakeholder work, not just the target-state design

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US.

Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits.

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