IAM Backend Engineer – OAuth/OIDC at Scale

Triwill Group; Cupertino, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible PTO

Wellness reimbursement

Lunch stipend

Donation matching

Job summary

Postman, the world’s leading API platform, is seeking an experienced IAM engineer to design and improve authentication and authorization systems. You will work on secure, scalable backend components and APIs within a cross-functional team spanning product, design, security, and platform engineers.

You will explore role engineering, session management, and standardized formats to satisfy AuthN/AuthZ needs and contribute to Postman’s AI-enabled identity framework.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building complex backend or distributed systems at scale.
• Proficient with Javascript, node.js, React.Js, and a good understanding of web fundamentals.
• Good knowledge of Database fundamentals, especially on performance aspects like optimizing queries, schema design, indexing, and caching.
• Proven record of building & products from scratch.
• (Bonus) Good understanding of auth products, protocols, and methods ( OAuth, SAML, OIDC etc.)

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize the auth standards and protocols such as OAuth2.0, OIDC, SCIM, SAML and so on.
• Contribute to the development of secure, reliable and scalable IAM platform components.
• Be involved in research areas such as role engineering, session management, and implement standardized formats meeting cross-functional AuthN and AuthZ needs for the platform.
• Contribute to developing APIs and products while working with a cross-functional team of Product Managers, Designers, Support and Product, Quality, Security and Platform Engineers.
• Utilize your technical and domain expertise to help architect the solution and facilitate cross-squad knowledge sharing on best practices.
• Design & build any additional internal tooling required to ease the development & maintenance of the product.
• Contribute to creating a cohesive identity framework for postman.ai, Postman's forward-looking AI product suite

Skills

5+ years experience

Javascript

Node.js

React.Js

Database fundamentals

Product mindset

Auth protocols

Job description

Postman, the world’s leading API platform, is seeking an experienced IAM engineer to design and improve authentication and authorization systems. You will work on secure, scalable backend components and APIs within a cross-functional team spanning product, design, security, and platform engineers.

You will explore role engineering, session management, and standardized formats to satisfy AuthN/AuthZ needs and contribute to Postman’s AI-enabled identity framework.