IAM Engineering Manager: Lead Secure Identity at Scale

Lambda; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Lambda is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Identity and Access Management team, defining how identity, authentication, authorization, and key-management services are built at scale. You will own execution, team health, and architectural decisions for highly available, low-latency services used across Lambda’s API, Console, Kubernetes, and cloud services.

You will partner with Security, Product, Compliance, and customer-facing teams to deliver platform capabilities adopted across

Qualifications

• Experience building security- critical distributed systems.
• Strong leadership and team-building skills.
• Proven ability to drive architecture and design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the IAM engineering team.
• Define long-term technical and architecture strategy for IAM platform.
• Build secure, scalable identity capabilities from federation to workload identity.
• Evolve RBAC, policy evaluation, and resource hierarchy with least privilege defaults.
• Ensure consistent APIs and integration standards across Lambda services.

Job description

Lambda is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Identity and Access Management team, defining how identity, authentication, authorization, and key-management services are built at scale. You will own execution, team health, and architectural decisions for highly available, low-latency services used across Lambda’s API, Console, Kubernetes, and cloud services.

You will partner with Security, Product, Compliance, and customer-facing teams to deliver platform capabilities adopted across