Description
We're looking for a Staff Security Engineer to join our Application and Security Engineering team. As a Staff Security Engineer, you will focus on Identity and Access Management and build and maintain world-class defensive controls to protect the systems we use to build our advanced defense technology products.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building an identity engine that powers the whole company and supercharges our security program
- Creating applications that enable and enforce our identity framework across the company
- Developing integrations that unify identities across IdPs, cloud providers, SaaS tools, and internal systems
- Automating identity lifecycle operations: provisioning, access reviews, offboarding
- Collaborating with other IAM engineers and partner teams to define architecture and ship iteratively
Requirements include:
- Strong programming ability in one or more general-purpose languages (Go, Rust, etc)
- Experience with one or more infrastructure as code languages (e.g., Terraform, AWS CDK) in a production capacity
- Experience with identity protocols (SAML, OIDC, SCIM, OAuth) or identity providers (Okta, Azure AD, etc.)
- Proven ability to translate system design requirements into clean, maintainable implementations
- Experience leading or contributing to architecture and design reviews
- Experience working with cloud platforms and deploying applications through CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to work autonomously, take ownership of projects, and collaborate across teams
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance
Preferred qualifications include:
- Having worked in environments with complex identity or access issues, troubleshooting across distributed systems
- Familiarity with RBAC, ABAC, or policy-as-code frameworks (e.g., OPA, Cedar)
- Experience building bespoke solutions in high-growth and high-complexity environments
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP ecosystems and tooling
Salary: $147,000 - $253,000 USD per year
Benefits: Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive health insurance, retirement savings plan, and paid time off.
Please note that the salary range is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations.