IAM Security Engineer

Cloudflare; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an Identity and Access Management Security Engineer to design, implement, and scale IAM solutions for the company’s internal workforce and workloads. You will secure authentication, authorization, and access across critical systems, and drive governance with SCIM and access certifications.

You will build SSO integrations (SAML, OIDC, OAuth) and automate RBAC/ABAC-based roles, PAM platforms, and certifications, while leveraging AI-driven tooling to

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of identity federation (SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect).
• Experience implementing Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) with lifecycle mgmt, SCIM, and access certifications.
• Hands-on engineering experience with AI/LLMs to solve operational challenges.
• Experience with containerized platforms (Kubernetes) and IaC tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and scale IAM solutions for internal workforce and workloads.
• Secure user access, authentication, and authorization across systems.
• Build SSO integrations using SAML, OIDC, OAuth, SCIM.
• Develop and manage IAM governance and access certifications.
• Automate roles with RBAC/ABAC and manage PAM platforms.
• Support IAM operations and on-call rotations as needed.

Skills

Identity federation

IGA solutions

Automation scripting

AI/LLMs in ops

Kubernetes

Python

TypeScript

RBAC/ABAC

Zero Trust

ITDR

SAML/OIDC/OAuth/SCIM

Identity governance

IAM policy enforcement

Terraform

Ansible

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

About Us

At the company, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. the company protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by the company all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. the company was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At the company, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a \"normalized\" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available Locations:

Hybrid from Austin, TX

About the Department

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) team is dedicated to ensuring the secure and efficient management of user identities, access privileges, and authentication mechanisms across internal systems, applications, and data. Our mission is to safeguard the organization against unauthorized access, protect sensitive information, and enable seamless user experiences while adhering to industry best practices and compliance standards.

About the Role

As an Identity and Access Management (IAM) Security Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and scaling identity and access management solutions for the company’s internal workforce and workloads. You will be responsible for safeguarding our systems, applications, and data by ensuring secure user access, authentication, and authorization mechanisms.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, test, and deploy IAM solutions across authentication, authorization, and accounting
• Leverage the company products to secure our identities
• Build SSO integrations leveraging SAML, OIDC, OAuth, and SCIM
• Build and manage the Identity Governance and Administration platform
• Develop automated roles leveraging RBAC and ABAC
• Build and manage an access certification platform
• Build and manage a Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform
• Provide operational support of IAM systems including an on-call rotation that may include after hours calls

Desirable skills, knowledge and experience

Security engineers take part in a wide variety of tasks and projects in the team. One individual is not expected to know everything, but a working knowledge in several of the following areas is required:

• Strong understanding of identity federation (SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, etc.)
• Experience implementing Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions including lifecycle management, SCIM, birthright access (RBAC, ABAC), and access certifications
• Demonstrated ability to build production-grade automation scripts and tools. Must possess hands‑on engineering experience leveraging AI/LLMs to solve operational or technical challenges.
• Experience with secure configuration of containerized application platforms (e.g. Kubernetes)
• Advanced scripting experience (Python, TypeScript, Bash, etc.)
• Experience implementing Zero Trust controls
• Experience integrating with applications and SaaS solutions
• Experience with Identity and Access Management policy application and enforcement
• Experience working with Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR)
• Experience working with infrastructure as code and configuration management tools like Terraform, Ansible, etc.

What Makes the company Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo

Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by the company’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project

In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1

We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service the company has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the the company Offices or the company Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

the company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expre