Principal IAM Architect & Tech Lead

Socket.dev; Calgary; On-site; CAD 135,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Duck Software, Inc. seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead identity, authentication, authorization, and access management platforms across products and teams.

You will shape architecture, security, scalability, and operations for customer-facing SaaS services, mentoring engineers and setting engineering standards. The role requires 10+ years in software engineering with architecture leadership, hands-on IAM/CIAM experience, and familiarity with Auth0, Okta, Azure AD, MFA, and modern

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering with architecture leadership.
• Extensive IAM/CIAM design and operations experience.
• Experience with modern authentication and cloud-native SaaS.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and evolution of enterprise-scale IAM/CIAM solutions.
• Serve as technical authority for authentication, authorization, federation, and identity lifecycle management.
• Mentor engineers and establish engineering standards across teams.

Skills

IAM/CIAM design

OAuth/OIDC/SAML

Distributed systems

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s in CS/Engineering

Tools

Auth0

Okta

Azure AD

Ping Identity

Job description

Black Duck Software, Inc. seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead identity, authentication, authorization, and access management platforms across products and teams.

You will shape architecture, security, scalability, and operations for customer-facing SaaS services, mentoring engineers and setting engineering standards. The role requires 10+ years in software engineering with architecture leadership, hands-on IAM/CIAM experience, and familiarity with Auth0, Okta, Azure AD, MFA, and modern