IAM Engineering Lead: Scale Security & Platform Strategy

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San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 260,000 - 320,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Lambda is seeking a seasoned IAM engineering leader to build and scale a secure, scalable identity platform. You will drive architectural strategy, oversee the KMS and key management, and own the reliability and security of mission-critical IAM services.

You will mentor engineers, influence cross-functional teams, and translate enterprise requirements into durable platform capabilities. You will partner with senior leaders to ensure robust governance, risk management, and auditable security

Qualifications

Have 9+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading and developing engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.
Have built and operated large-scale distributed systems with high availability, security, and reliability requirements.
Bring strong technical judgment across cloud infrastructure and IAM — authentication, authorization, workload identity, privileged access, and policy enforcement.
Can engage deeply in architecture, pressure-test designs, and guide tradeoffs across security, correctness, scale, performance, and operability.
Have a strong track record of building high-performing teams and developing engineers and technical leaders through periods of growth and change.
Have driven cross-functional platform or security initiatives and influenced teams and leaders without direct authority.
Can turn ambiguous infrastructure problems into clear strategy, pragmatic execution, and broadly adopted platform capabilities.
Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and set a high bar for engineering quality, operational discipline, and ownership.
Hold a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field, or have equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

Build, lead, and grow the IAM engineering team with a culture of ownership and high standards.
Collaborate with IAM leaders to establish the long-term technical and architectural strategy for the IAM platform.
Create secure, scalable identity capabilities for people, services, and workloads across federation, SSO, and workload identity.
Evolve the authorization platform including RBAC, policy evaluation, and hierarchical resource models.
Ensure IAM adoption across Lambda services via consistent APIs and integration standards.
Own the KMS including customer-managed keys and HSM-backed protections across compute, storage, and networking.
Ensure reliability, security, performance, and operations of IAM services with observability and disaster recovery.
Translate enterprise needs into durable platform capabilities and clearly communicate strategy and health to leadership.
Balance enterprise-grade complexity with simple experiences for customers with varying identity expertise.