3 days ago
Base Salary
$160k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the technical vision and lead architectural decisions for security engineering, including IAM evolution and build-versus-buy decisions.
- Develop and secure customer identity, authentication, authorization, and observability systems across a microservices architecture.
- Manage and improve security microservices, custom frameworks, engineering tooling, and related standards.
- Secure distributed, event-based systems and agentic AI infrastructure handling patient records and intellectual property.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and other cross-functional teams on priorities, scope, trade-offs, and internal security standards.
- Identify engineering gaps and drive improvements in tooling, designs, processes, and technical practices.
- Provide mentorship, documentation, training, presentations, and technical leadership across the organization.
Requirements
- Several years of experience working on software development teams and setting technical vision for a product area.
- Experience with technical analysis and design, technology trade-offs, build-versus-buy decisions, and establishing engineering best practices.
- Experience developing and securing distributed, event-based systems at significant transaction or data scale.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure providers such as Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud and tools such as Docker, Terraform, or Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with identity management platforms such as Auth0, Okta, Microsoft Entra, or Ping Identity.
- Comfort working across multiple programming languages and frameworks.
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally, troubleshooting roadblocks, documenting systems, and mentoring engineers.
- Preferred experience with OAuth, SCIM, SAML, OAuth 2.1, agentic controls, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, Chronicle, SIEMs, and authorization models including RBAC, ReBAC, ABAC, and PBAC.
Benefits
- Tempus offers a full range of benefits, which may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical benefits, and other benefits depending on the position.
- The stated salary range is $160,000–$220,000 for roles performed from California and may vary for Colorado, Illinois, and New York locations.
- Remote roles may be open to individuals in unincorporated Los Angeles, subject to applicable fair-chance employment laws.
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About Tempus
Tempus builds AI-enabled precision medicine tools and genomic tests used by physicians and health systems, with a core focus on oncology. It sells diagnostics, clinical decision-support software, and real‑world data services to providers and biopharma for drug discovery and trials. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Chicago, Tempus is a public company listed on Nasdaq.
