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Identity & Access Management

Engineers in this role architect and operate identity systems that secure access across distributed AI infrastructure, multi-tenant platforms, and cloud environments serving thousands of users and services. They combine hands-on engineering—writing infrastructure-as-code, building authentication flows, automating provisioning workflows—with strategic design, setting long-term direction for how identity evolves alongside rapidly scaling AI platforms. Unlike general security roles, they specialize deeply in identity primitives like SSO, RBAC, service account management, and agentic AI workload access, often working across multiple cloud providers and compliance frameworks like FedRAMP. These engineers typically sit within dedicated security or trust teams, partnering closely with platform, infrastructure, and compliance functions to embed identity into every layer of the stack.

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Senior Staff Software Engineer - IAMPrincipal Engineer, Authentication
Open Jobs8
Companies Hiring3
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Measured across 8 of 8 open postings.

13%
expect AI in the role's own work
0% state it as a requirement
0%
work directly with customers
25%
manage people
Staff / Principal
most common level
75% of open postings
WHAT THEY ASK FOR, VERBATIM

“Leveraging Lambda's hosted LLMs, you'll pioneer AI-driven enterprise security automation—such as intelligent access reviews, automated policy enforcement, and SaaS risk monitoring.”

Lambda · Senior Security Engineer - Enterprise Security
$02

Skills

What companies are looking for in this role.

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Identity and access management

100%

Security engineering

100%

Cryptography and key management

75%

Distributed systems architecture

75%

Cloud and infrastructure security

50%

Detection engineering

50%

Security program strategy

38%

Security operations management

25%

Security policy and standards

25%
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Technical communication

25%

Technical team leadership and mentoring

25%
$03

Technology

The tools and technologies that define this role.

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Kubernetesvery high
Oktamoderate
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Cryptographymoderate
$04

Open Jobs

8 open Identity & Access Management jobs across 3 companies.

Lambda2w
Senior Security Engineer - Enterprise Security
Bellevue Office·Security
CoreWeave6mo
Senior Security Engineer, Enterprise Security
New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA/ San Francisco, CA·Security
Databricks6mo
Principal Engineer, Authentication
Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California·Security
Databricks6mo
Principal Engineer, Authentication
Bellevue, Washington; Seattle, Washington·Security
Databricks7mo
Senior Staff Software Engineer - IAM
Mountain View, California·Security
Databricks7mo
Staff Software Engineer - IAM
Mountain View, California·Security
Databricks7mo
Staff Software Engineer - IAM
Bellevue, Washington·Security
Databricks7mo
Senior Staff Software Engineer - IAM
Seattle, Washington·Security