3 hours ago
Base Salary
$192k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend systems and APIs for authentication, authorization, identity context, and audit workflows.
- Lead engineering initiatives from technical design and implementation through rollout, measurement, and operational support.
- Improve login and access experiences across SSO, MFA, step-up authentication, delegated access, and enterprise identity flows.
- Build authorization systems supporting custom roles, resource-aware access control, and secure defaults.
- Create identity-aware audit trails and attribution for user, service, delegated, and agent-driven actions.
- Partner with engineers across Brex to improve IAM integrations through secure patterns, tooling, and shared libraries.
- Mentor engineers and improve the reliability, maintainability, and operational quality of team systems.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional experience designing, developing, and deploying applications.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building reliable production backend systems.
- Experience leading complex projects and mentoring other engineers.
- Strong API design fundamentals and rigor around testing, code quality, and documentation.
- Understanding of IAM concepts including authentication, authorization, sessions, tokens, MFA, SSO, OAuth, SAML, OIDC, and RBAC.
- Clear communication and effective cross-functional collaboration.
- Experience improving system reliability, reducing operational toil, and maintaining high-quality services.
- Strong product and engineering judgment with the ability to balance security, usability, and developer experience.
- Preferred experience with IAM, authentication, authorization, or audit systems in production.
- Preferred hands-on experience with Okta, Oso, SSO, SAML, OIDC, OAuth, passkeys, or WebAuthn.
- Preferred experience building enterprise-facing admin controls, custom roles, delegated access flows, audit trails, or secure-by-default platform frameworks.
Benefits
- Hybrid New York office role with required in-office days on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
- Up to four weeks per year of fully remote work.
- Equity and other forms of compensation may be included depending on the position offered.
About Brex
Brex builds a spend management platform for businesses, combining corporate cards with expense management, bill pay, travel, and cash management software. It earns revenue from SaaS subscriptions and card interchange, and serves over 30,000 businesses including DoorDash and ServiceTitan. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, Brex LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, N.A.