Thrivent

Principal Engineer (S) - Identity and Access Management

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Remote, United StatesStaff+

Base Salary

$161k - $218k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and advance enterprise IAM architectures, engineering practices, security controls, standards, and reusable patterns.
  • Lead threat modeling for AI-enabled attacks, credential abuse, machine identity compromise, and emerging identity threats.
  • Develop governance and security models for AI agents, autonomous workflows, APIs, workloads, service accounts, and non-human identities.
  • Advance authentication, authorization, identity governance, privileged access, adaptive access, and continuous-trust capabilities.
  • Drive AI-powered identity detection, prevention, response, anomaly monitoring, access reviews, entitlement analysis, role mining, and policy recommendations.
  • Establish detection, telemetry, monitoring, auditability, accountability, and response standards for identity and AI threats.
  • Partner with product, engineering, infrastructure, cyber defense, data, and enterprise architecture teams to embed security into designs and delivery.
  • Mentor engineers and engineering leaders through code, design reviews, technical guidance, and secure-by-default reference implementations.
  • Research adversarial AI techniques and evolving attack methodologies and influence senior leadership on identity and AI security investments.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field, or equivalent work experience.
  • 10+ years of experience in security engineering or a related field.
  • Experience defining and executing enterprise security strategy.
  • Deep knowledge of modern threats, attack techniques, and detection engineering.
  • Experience with threat modeling, incident response, and security operations.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence technical and executive stakeholders.
  • Ability to evaluate protocols, practices, and patterns for enterprise fit, risk management, operability, and adoption at scale.
  • Knowledge of agentic AI architectures, AI agents, machine identities, non-human identities, autonomous systems, and AI-enabled workflows.
  • Experience establishing governance, authorization, accountability, and trust models for autonomous actors.
  • Familiarity with AI security frameworks including OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS.

Benefits

  • The role is remote.
  • The full-time position may offer medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, 401(k), pension, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance, supplemental protection insurance, 20 days of paid time off, sick and safe time, 10 paid company holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental leave, EAP, well-being benefits, and various bonuses or incentives, subject to applicable plan and policy documents.

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About Thrivent

5,001-10,000 employees

Thrivent provides financial advice, insurance, investment products, and banking services to individuals and families through a network of financial advisors and digital tools. The Fortune 500, privately held organization traces its roots to 1902 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN; it serves more than 2 million clients and runs donor-advised and generosity programs. Its revenue comes from premiums, asset management fees, and interest/spread-based banking income.

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