# Senior Identity Engineer **Company**: Later **Location**: Boston, MA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $125,000-205,000 USD **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/later/jobs/8751067002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_93702022-e37 ## Description As a Senior Identity Engineer at Later, you will play a critical role in strengthening and scaling the security foundations that power our platform. This role blends deep security expertise with hands-on engineering, with a particular focus on identity and access management, authentication systems, and secure-by-design development practices. You’ll partner closely with Engineering, Infrastructure, and Product teams to embed security into our CI/CD pipelines, internal platforms, and customer-facing systems,enabling teams to move quickly while keeping our systems, data, and users safe. ### Responsibilities #### Strategy - Assess and continuously improve Later’s security posture across applications, infrastructure, and development workflows - Define and implement scalable security standards, guardrails, and best practices that support compliance through automated and auditable solutions - Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to align security priorities with business objectives and delivery timelines - Identify emerging risks and proactively design systems and processes that reduce long-term exposure #### Technical/Execution - Own identity and access management across Later’s platform, including authentication, authorization, and secure machine-to-machine (M2M) processes - Design, implement, and maintain secure authentication systems for both internal tools and customer-facing experiences - Harden login systems, establish consistent authentication patterns across services, and ensure secure integration between tools - Build and maintain internal security tooling to support secure development, operational visibility, and compliance workflows - Embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines, including SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning, secret management, and secure build/deploy practices - Partner with engineering teams to identify vulnerabilities, clearly communicate risk and impact, and drive effective remediation #### Team/Collaboration - Provide pragmatic, solution-oriented security guidance during system design and architecture reviews - Collaborate cross-functionally to embed security into development workflows without slowing delivery - Translate complex security concepts into clear, actionable recommendations for both technical and non-technical stakeholders - Act as a trusted partner to engineering teams, balancing risk mitigation with business enablement #### Leadership - Lead by influence,raising the security bar through standards, tooling, and mentorship - Set a high standard for secure engineering practices and help others level up their security mindset - Model accountability, ownership, and transparency in security decisions #### Research/Best Practices - Stay current on application security, cloud security, and identity best practices - Apply industry frameworks (e.g., OWASP, NIST, CIS Controls) pragmatically within production environments - Continuously evaluate and improve identity architecture and security automation to scale with the business ### Requirements - 5–7+ years of experience as a Security Engineer or Software Engineer with a strong security focus - Proven experience building and operating production-grade software, systems, or internal tooling - Strong background in application security, infrastructure security, and secure CI/CD practices - Hands-on experience with identity and access management, including authentication systems, authorization frameworks, and machine-to-machine security patterns - Experience applying security frameworks such as OWASP, NIST, or CIS Controls in real-world production environments - Familiarity with cloud security tooling (AWS Security Hub, Azure Security Center, or GCP Security Command Center), SIEM/SOAR tools, and Infrastructure-as-Code security scanning (Terraform, CloudFormation) - Experience supporting compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001 - Familiarity with modern backend systems (including C#) and cloud-native architectures - Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence engineering teams to improve security outcomes - Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex security concepts into clear, actionable guidance ### Nice to Have - Experience designing or migrating identity architecture at scale - Experience building internal developer security tooling - Experience working in a high-growth technology environment ### What Success Looks Like - Identity and access management is secure, scalable, and consistently implemented across the platform - Security controls are embedded into CI/CD pipelines, reducing manual effort and improving detection and prevention - Engineering teams proactively consider security in their designs and view security as an enabler,not a blocker - Vulnerabilities are identified early, clearly prioritized, and remediated efficiently - Compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001) are supported through automation and well-defined processes - Later’s overall security posture measurably improves while maintaining speed of product delivery ## Skills ### Required - application security - infrastructure security - secure CI/CD practices - identity and access management - authentication systems - authorization frameworks - machine-to-machine security patterns - OWASP - NIST - CIS Controls - cloud security tooling - SIEM/SOAR tools - Infrastructure-as-Code security scanning - compliance frameworks - modern backend systems - cloud-native architectures ### Nice to have - designing or migrating identity architecture at scale - building internal developer security tooling - high-growth technology environment --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/later/jobs/8751067002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)