Identity & Access Platform Lead Engineer

Deciml; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Deciml is building a customer identity and access infrastructure to support platform teams, featuring sign-up/sign-in, API credentials, enterprise SSO, and entitlements. You will lead the technical direction while staying hands-on enough to influence architecture, debugging, and incident response, with collaboration across Security, Product, Risk, and Onboarding teams.

You will guide migrations, enforce high engineering standards, and drive improvements in reliability and developer experience in

Qualifications

• 3+ years directly managing software engineers, including hiring and performance coaching.
• Production experience with authentication/authorization, identity, or access-control platforms.
• Recent architecture ownership with hands-on design and code review responsibilities.
• Strong security judgment around identity, access, and blast-radius risk.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for identity and access capabilities.
• Manage, coach, and grow a team of engineers while maintaining engineering quality.
• Lead technical designs, review critical code paths, debug production issues, and participate in incident response.
• Guide migrations, cutovers, rollback planning, and architectural changes.
• Partner with Security, Product, Risk, Onboarding, and other teams that integrate with identity.
• Translate competing requests into a clear sequence of work and communicate tradeoffs.

Skills

People management

Technical leadership

Architecture ownership

Incident response

Code review

OAuth/OpenID Connect

SAML federation

RBAC/ABAC

AI-aware engineering

Job description

Deciml is building a customer identity and access infrastructure to support platform teams, featuring sign-up/sign-in, API credentials, enterprise SSO, and entitlements. You will lead the technical direction while staying hands-on enough to influence architecture, debugging, and incident response, with collaboration across Security, Product, Risk, and Onboarding teams.

You will guide migrations, enforce high engineering standards, and drive improvements in reliability and developer experience in