Engineering Manager, Authentication Platform & Identity

Own Company; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off programs

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Mental health support

Paid parental leave

Life and disability insurance

401(k)

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Salesforce in Bellevue, WA seeks an Authentication Platform Engineering Manager to lead the core identity services powering our production IAM stack. You will guide a team of engineers across Kerberos, LDAP, WebAuthn/FIDO2, and TOTP in a cloud/hybrid environment.

Leverage deep expertise in identity protocols and AI-enabled development to drive secure, scalable infrastructure while mentoring engineers toward advanced system design and secure coding practices.

Qualifications

• 13+ years of software engineering experience, including 3-5 years leading teams in high-pressure, infrastructure-centric environments.
• Proven expertise in Kerberos and identity protocols such as SAML, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and LDAP.
• Experience managing systems with massive throughput and high-availability requirements in public cloud (AWS/GCP) or hybrid environments.
• You're familiar with Java, Go, or C#, and have experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• You have active, hands-on proficiency with AI development tools; full utilization is the baseline expectation, along with deep technical expertise sufficient to evaluate architectural integrity and make informed decisions about AI-generated output.
• You have experience assessing candidates on their ability to formulate effective prompts, evaluate AI outputs, and orchestrate multi-agent workflows in addition to foundational technical skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive the strategy and execution for the Authentication Platform, ensuring these foundational services scale horizontally across diverse environments.
• Provide technical leadership across a diverse protocol stack, from Kerberos and LDAP to modern WebAuthn/FIDO2 and TOTP implementations.
• Guarantee the reliability of services that are foundational dependencies for the entire company, targeting high availability standards.
• Partner with security architects to implement Zero Trust principles, ensuring the platform enforces least privilege and robust identity verification.
• Develop each engineer's ability to work effectively in an AI-augmented environment, coaching growth into higher-level system design and architecture work.
• Own how AI tools are integrated into the team's daily development cycle, including configuration, feedback loops, and judgment calls about when human review is required.
• Guard architectural integrity, security best practices, and technical standards as AI increases code volume, coaching engineers to audit AI-generated code for flaws.

Skills

Software engineering

Team leadership

Kerberos

Identity protocols

SAML

OIDC

LDAP

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Java

Go

C#

AI tools proficiency

Architectural review

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Terraform

AI development tools

Job description

Salesforce in Bellevue, WA seeks an Authentication Platform Engineering Manager to lead the core identity services powering our production IAM stack. You will guide a team of engineers across Kerberos, LDAP, WebAuthn/FIDO2, and TOTP in a cloud/hybrid environment.

Leverage deep expertise in identity protocols and AI-enabled development to drive secure, scalable infrastructure while mentoring engineers toward advanced system design and secure coding practices.