Remote Senior CIAM Engineer: Secure Identity Platform

Affirm; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 169,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Competitive vacation and holiday schedules

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

A leading financial technology company is seeking an engineering professional for its Information Security team to design and implement core customer identity and access management (CIAM) systems. Responsibilities include building secure backend services for authentication, implementing identity standards, and optimizing CIAM services for performance. Ideal candidates will have 5+ years of backend engineering experience, strong production knowledge of Python, and familiarity with cloud-native development. The role offers competitive compensation and is primarily remote.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with CIAM systems, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, and SCIM.
• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Strong experience in Python or a similar backend language.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate backend CIAM services for customer authentication.
• Implement identity standards ensuring scalability and integration.
• Monitor and optimize CIAM services for performance and resilience.

Skills

CIAM systems design

OAuth 2.0

Python programming

API design

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud-native development

Infrastructure as Code

Security fundamentals

Communication skills

Tools

GitHub

Terraform

AWS

Job description

A leading financial technology company is seeking an engineering professional for its Information Security team to design and implement core customer identity and access management (CIAM) systems. Responsibilities include building secure backend services for authentication, implementing identity standards, and optimizing CIAM services for performance. Ideal candidates will have 5+ years of backend engineering experience, strong production knowledge of Python, and familiarity with cloud-native development. The role offers competitive compensation and is primarily remote.