Hybrid IAM Engineering Manager: Secure Platform Lead

Socket.dev

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401k Plan with 2% company match

Wellness and commuter stipends

Job summary

Lambda is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Identity and Access Management team. You will shape how identity, authentication, authorization, and key-management services are built and scaled across Lambda Cloud.

The role spans APIs, Console, Kubernetes products, and cloud services, including federation, SSO, SCIM, and RBAC. You will own execution, team health, and architectural direction, partnering with Security, Product, Compliance, and customer teams to deliver durable platform

Qualifications

9+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading and developing engineering teams.
Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems with high availability, security, and reliability.
Strong technical judgment across cloud infrastructure and IAM — authentication, authorization, workload identity, privileged access, and policy enforcement.
Ability to engage in architecture and guide tradeoffs across security, correctness, scale, performance, and operability.

Responsibilities

Build, lead, and scale the IAM engineering team with a culture of ownership and high standards.
Define long-term technical and architectural strategy for Lambda's IAM platform.
Develop secure, scalable identity capabilities for people, services, and workloads.
Evolve the authorization platform with least privilege and auditability as defaults.
Drive adoption across Lambda services via consistent APIs and models.
Own Key Management Service including customer-managed keys and KMS integration.
Ensure reliability, security, and operations of mission-critical IAM services.