Senior AI Identity & Authorization Engineer

delinea; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful bonus program

Healthcare insurance

Pension/retirement matching

Life insurance

Employee assistance program

Time off plans

Paid company holidays

Job summary

Delinea seeks a senior engineer to design and build the core identity and authorization components powering our AI-enabled security platform. You will shape how agents are identified and what they can do, and work across teams to deliver secure, scalable controls.

You will drive architectural decisions, evaluate Cedar, OPA, or AuthZEN, and ensure robust interfaces that other services depend on.

Qualifications

• Typically 7+ years of software engineering experience in identity, authorization, or distributed security.
• Hands-on experience building authorization or policy systems (Cedar, OPA, OpenFGA, or similar).
• Working knowledge of identity standards like OAuth, OpenID Connect, SPIFFE/SPIRE, or workload federation.
• History designing scalable interfaces and systems used by multiple teams.
• Ability to lead technical decisions across teams and communicate clearly.

Responsibilities

• Design the identity model for AI agents, including delegated actions and composite identities.
• Build the authorization engine that determines in real time what agents can do.
• Define trust for identities issued by outside platforms like Microsoft Entra and Salesforce.
• Develop authorization and continuous evaluation using live session and decision signals.
• Own interfaces and contracts the platform uses, keeping them clean as the system grows.
• Provide technical leadership across teams and elevate identity and authorization standards.

Skills

Identity security

Authorization

Distributed systems security

OAuth / OpenID Connect

Policy engines (Cedar / OPA / OpenFGA)

Leadership across teams

Tools

Cedar

OPA

OpenFGA

AuthZEN

Job description

Delinea seeks a senior engineer to design and build the core identity and authorization components powering our AI-enabled security platform. You will shape how agents are identified and what they can do, and work across teams to deliver secure, scalable controls.

You will drive architectural decisions, evaluate Cedar, OPA, or AuthZEN, and ensure robust interfaces that other services depend on.