Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Management (IAM)
LambdaAI Infrastructure company
San Francisco, United StatesManager
Nvidia
TWG Global
US Innovative Technology Fund
Andra Capital
SGW
B Capital
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead the IAM engineering team to build and scale foundational security services for Lambda Cloud.
- •{"about_the_role": "Lambda is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Identity and Access Management (IAM) team.
- •This role is crucial for building and scaling the foundational identity, authentication, authorization, and key-management services that underpin all Lambda Cloud products, ensuring customer trust and security.", "key_responsibilities": ["Build, lead, and grow the IAM engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership and high engineering standards.", "Define and deliver the long-term technical and architectural strategy for Lambda's IAM platform.", "Build secure, scalable identity capabilities for people, services, and workloads, including federation, SSO, and workload identity.", "Evolve the authorization platform (RBAC, policy evaluation, resource hierarchy) with least privilege and auditability as defaults.", "Build and own Lambda's Key Management Service, including customer-managed keys and HSM-backed protection."], "requirements": ["9+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading engineering teams.", "Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems with high availability, security, and reliability requirements.", "Strong technical judgment across cloud infrastructure and IAM (authentication, authorization, workload identity, policy enforcement).", "Proven track record of building high-performing teams and developing engineers and technical leaders.", "Ability to translate ambiguous infrastructure problems into clear strategy and pragmatic execution."]}
Required skills
IAMSSOOAuth
Nice-to-have skills
VaultMFASAMLJWTPythonGoAWSGoogle CloudAzureKubernetes
Domain expertise
developer-toolsai
Benefits & perks
equity, health insurance, dental coverage, vision coverage, wellness stipends, commuter stipends, 401k Plan with 2% company match, flexible paid time off
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptJavaGoBashReactNode.jsSpringExpressAWSGoogle CloudAzureTerraformDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsAnsiblePrometheusGrafanaDatadogNginxOAuthJWTSAMLVaultIAMSSOMFA