Staff Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management

Archer Recruitment Pte Ltd; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer Recruitment Pte Ltd assists in hiring a Staff Software Engineer for Identity & Access Management in Dublin. This is a hands-on technical leadership role within a newly formed Identity team at an established cybersecurity product company.

You will own delivery from identity data ingestion to security findings, shape identity and permissions models, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Security Research and Data Science.

Qualifications

• Production software engineering experience in a software product environment.
• Hands-on experience building identity or security capabilities.
• Strong distributed systems, cloud architecture and technical leadership skills.
• Understanding of authentication, authorisation, credentials and permissions.
• Experience with AI agents, service accounts or workload identities would be particularly relevant.
• You may currently be a Staff or Principal Engineer, or a Senior Engineer leading work across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery from identity data ingestion through to customer-facing security findings.
• Shape how the product understands identities, permissions, behaviour and risk.
• Build capabilities covering human accounts, AI agents and machine identities.
• Lead complex designs, contribute code and mentor experienced engineers.
• Work with Python, AWS and Terraform, with extensive use of AI engineering tools.

Skills

Production software engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Technical leadership

Authentication & Authorization

AI agents / workloads

Tools

Python

AWS

Terraform

Job description

Staff Software Engineer – Identity & Access Management

Dublin | Hybrid | Competitive Salary + Stock Options

Help shape a new engineering team at an established cybersecurity product company.

An established global software company is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its newly formed Identity team. You’ll help build security capabilities that protect enterprise customers as AI agents, service accounts and automated workloads reshape how systems are accessed.

This is a hands-on technical leadership position with ownership of architecture, code and engineering direction. You’ll join an experienced engineering team and work closely with Security Research and Data Science to turn emerging security problems into production software.

The opportunity

• Own delivery from identity data ingestion through to customer-facing security findings.
• Shape how the product understands identities, permissions, behaviour and risk.
• Build capabilities covering human accounts, AI agents and machine identities.
• Lead complex designs, contribute code and mentor experienced engineers.
• Work with Python, AWS and Terraform, with extensive use of AI engineering tools.

Your experience

• Strong production software engineering experience in a software product environment.
• Hands-on experience building identity or security capabilities.
• Strong distributed systems, cloud architecture and technical leadership skills.
• Understanding of authentication, authorisation, credentials and permissions.
• Experience with AI agents, service accounts or workload identities would be particularly relevant.

You may currently be a Staff or Principal Engineer, or a Senior Engineer already leading work across teams. Experience with Entra ID, OAuth/OIDC or security telemetry is also prefered.

Package & location

• Flexible Hybrid working, Dublin City Centre office
• Senior individual contributor role with no direct reports, focused on Technology leadership