Sr. Principal IAM Security Engineer

Key Responsibilities

Identity Strategy& Governance 

• Define the enterprise and platform IAMstrategyfor human identities, NHI, and AI/agent identities, including lifecycle, authentication, authorization, and auditing standards

• Establish identity reference architectures, patterns, and paved roads for product teams and internal engineering

Non-human Identity Security (Enterprise + Platform) 

• Build and operationalize controls for service identities, workload identities, API identities, bots, and automation accounts across cloud, CI/CD, and runtime environments

• Drive adoption of short-lived, federated credentials wherefeasible; reduce static secrets and unmanaged service accounts

• Implement lifecycle governance for NHI: creation standards, ownership, rotation/attestation, inactivity reaping, and incident response playbooks

AI / Agentic Identity Enablement 

• Define secure patterns for AI acting on behalf of users or services, including delegated authorization, scoped tokens, and least-privilege access models

• Partner with AI platform teams to implement guardrails: identity provenance, policy enforcement, auditing, and kill-switch mechanisms for misbehaving agents

• Ensure AI identity behaviors are measurable and governable (logging, traceability, approvals for sensitive actions, segmentation of duties)

Authorization, Policy, and Access modeling 

• Build/standardize authorization models (RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC asappropriate)across workforce and product systems

• Drive consistentpolicy ascode, access reviews, and privileged access workflows

• Define standards for token scopes, claims, session constraints, step-up auth, and sensitive action protections

Operational Excellence & Incident Readiness 

• Improve detection/response for identity threats: anomalous token use, privilege escalation, credential misuse, service-account sprawl.

• Create metrics and reporting for identity posture and platform adoption (coverage, drift, exceptions, time-to-remediate)

• Lead identity-related investigations and post-incident improvements

Leadership & influence 

• Serve as a senior technical leader influencing engineering orgs, platform teams, and security; mentor others and raise the bar on identity engineering

• Translate risk into pragmatic engineering requirements; drive roadmaps across multiple teams

Minimum Qualifications 

• 10+ years in IAM / security engineering, including designing identity architectures at enterprise scale

• Proven experience securing non-human identities across cloud, CI/CD, and production runtimes

• Deep knowledge of auth standards: OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, JWT, token exchange, federation, and modern workload identity patterns

• Strong authorization design experience: modeling permissions, least privilege, policy enforcement, and access governance

• Experience designing or securing systems where software agents act on behalf of users/services (delegation, impersonation, tool access, constrained execution)

• Ability to define guardrails for agentic actions: approval gates, scoped permissions, auditable trails, and containment strategies

• Strong software engineering fundamentals (APIs, distributed systems, logging/telemetry); ability to review designs and code

• Experience with cloud IAM ecosystems and platform primitives (identity federation, workload identity,secretlesspatterns, KMS/HSM integration)

• Experience building identity “paved roads” and internal developer platforms (IDP) patterns for identity

• Experience with privileged access management and tiering models for admin access

• Familiarity with CI/CD identity, signing, and provenance controls (build identities, artifact trust, token hardening)

• Drives measurable risk reduction and adoption across orgs

• Sets standards others follow;resolvesambiguous identity problems; leads through influence