Product Security Senior IAM Software Engineer
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies2 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $206k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate security-critical identity and authorization services in Go on Kubernetes and AWS.
- Own and evolve SpiceDB authorization schemas, including resource hierarchies, roles, permissions, APIs, SDKs, and management tooling.
- Provide cloud-native engineering guidance through code reviews, mentorship, and collaboration with other teams.
- Participate in incident response and on-call processes for production services.
- Partner with PKI and service owners to implement mTLS and SPIFFE/SPIRE workload identity with SpiceDB-backed permissions.
- Mitigate reported vulnerabilities and implement cybersecurity protections aligned with regulations and industry standards.
- Deliver platform capabilities to internal engineering teams and lead projects from planning through completion.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of experience building and operating production backend services.
- Strong Go or comparable experience developing gRPC/REST services, protobuf/API designs, and client SDKs.
- Hands-on experience with OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, and fine-grained or relationship-based authorization such as SpiceDB/Zanzibar, OPA, or Cedar.
- Experience operating production services on Kubernetes and AWS, including Helm, ArgoCD, EKS, IAM, KMS, VPC networking, and SQL datastores such as Postgres or CockroachDB.
- Experience collaborating across heterogeneous engineering teams to ensure reliability of security-critical services.
- Preferred experience with SPIFFE/SPIRE, workload identity systems, PKCS#11, secure-element integration, Ory Hydra/Kratos, Kafka, NATS, Bazel monorepos, ADRs, or security architecture documentation.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, annual company performance bonus eligibility, and equity in the form of RSUs, subject to applicable terms.
- Comprehensive benefits for full-time employees, including health coverage, retirement savings, time off, and family planning programs; offerings vary by country.
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About Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a 2024 joint venture building software and electrical architectures for software-defined electric vehicles. It develops in-vehicle operating systems, zonal controllers, connectivity, and cloud solutions used by Rivian and Volkswagen Group brands. The privately held company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, and focuses on creating a shared platform that can be integrated and licensed across multiple vehicle programs.