3 months ago
Washington, DC, USASenior
Base Salary
$95k - $142k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the day-to-day identity security posture across corporate, production, customer, and US Government identity planes
- Drive agent identity infrastructure using short-lived credentials, human-principal lifecycle binding, and controlled workload onboarding
- Architect authentication, federation, authorization, and policy-driven access-control systems across workforce and workload identity
- Scale non-human identity patterns across service, workload, and agent populations using short-lived credentials, mTLS, and identity-based networking
- Drive adoption of just-in-time access and partner with platform and engineering teams on governance and policy enforcement
- Lead recurring identity threat modeling, publish findings, and track remediation
- Serve as a primary security reviewer for identity architecture decisions and cross-team RFCs
- Research and drive adoption of emerging identity security primitives and standards
- Partner with engineering teams to reduce the attack surface of identity integrations at scale
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in information security, identity and access management, or an equivalent discipline, with demonstrated depth in identity-specific security
- Hands-on production experience with at least one enterprise identity provider, such as Entra ID or Okta, including its governance and security surface
- Deep technical proficiency in SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SCIM, FIDO2, and WebAuthn and their attack surfaces
- Working proficiency in Go, Python, PowerShell, or TypeScript for prototyping, security analysis, automation, and code review
- Experience with cloud IAM, workload identity, non-human identity architectures, privileged access management, and secrets management
- Experience reducing standing access and implementing just-in-time access in production environments
- Identity governance, identity threat detection and response, detection engineering, red team, offensive security, or incident response experience
- Exposure to regulated environments such as FedRAMP, SOX, or IL-levels
- Current US security clearance or eligibility to obtain clearance
- Strong communication skills for technical design reviews and leadership risk discussions
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and voluntary life insurance options
- Employer-provided basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance
- Commuter benefits
- Take-what-you-need paid time off
- Two weeks of paid time off at the end of each year, subject to team and business needs
- Ten paid holidays
- Supportive leave of absence program, including military service and medical events
- Paid parental leave and subsidized backup care
- Fertility and family-building benefits
- New-child expense stipend
- 401(k) plan
- Primarily in-office work, with hybrid options available for some teams and exceptional remote arrangements for select roles
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