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.
ResponsibilitiesLead architecture and implementation of: AuthenticationAuthorizationIdentity federationFine-grained access controlOwn architecture for: RBACReBACABACACLPolicy enginesRelationship graphsDesign authorization for: Web applicationsMobileAPIsMicroservicesAI GatewayAgent runtimeMCP toolsKnowledge GraphVector storesDesign authorization decision architecture: PEP PDP Policy Store Relationship StoreDecisionLead adoption of: OpenFGA / SpiceDBCedarOpen Policy Agent (OPA)Zanzibar conceptsWork with platform teams on: API GatewayAI GatewayKubernetesService MeshmTLSEssential experience10+ years engineering5+ years security platform experienceDemonstrable experience building authorization engines using: RBACReBACABACACLExperience designing authorization for: Multi-tenant SaaSMicroservicesAPIsExperience with: OAuth2OpenID ConnectJWTSAMLStrong distributed systems experienceNice to haveGoogle ZanzibarOpenFGASpiceDBOPACedarEnvoyIstioSPIFFE/SPIREOur Interview PracticesTo 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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SummaryLocation: GBR - London, Canada SquareType: Full time