Remote Staff Software Engineer, Security & IAM

Tempus AI; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Tempus is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Security Engineering to drive key architectural initiatives across the security stack. You will lead technical vision for security, enable core identity and authentication systems, and secure agentic AI infrastructure within a decentralized microservices platform.

You will mentor teams and collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver secure, scalable software at speed.

Qualifications

• Experience setting the technical vision and direction for a product area.
• Familiarity with identity standards (OAuth, SAML, SCIM) and modern authentication.
• Experience building and securing distributed, event-based microservices at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead security engineering decisions and implement identity management, authorization, and observability across services.
• Maintain and improve security microservices, frameworks, and tooling.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enforce internal security standards in a microservice architecture.
• Prioritize projects with product teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions on time.
• Identify gaps in tooling and drive improvements in engineering practices.

Skills

IAM & SSO

OAuth / SAML / SCIM

Distributed systems

Security engineering

Polyglot programming

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Auth0/Okta/Entra/Ping Identity

Job description

Tempus is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Security Engineering to drive key architectural initiatives across the security stack. You will lead technical vision for security, enable core identity and authentication systems, and secure agentic AI infrastructure within a decentralized microservices platform.

You will mentor teams and collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver secure, scalable software at speed.