Senior IAM Engineer for Secure Vehicle Identities

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies seeks a Senior IAM Engineer to own core identity and authorization components across vehicle software, cloud services, and internal teams. You’ll drive from requirements to implementation, ensuring security protections and scalable access management within a cloud-native stack.

You will work with Go, OAuth2/OIDC, SpiceDB, and Kubernetes on AWS, shaping policy, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enable secure vehicle operations and remote

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent; 5+ years building production backend services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate security-critical identity and authorization services (OAuth2/OIDC provider, workload identity) on Kubernetes/AWS.
• Own the authorization data model; evolve SpiceDB schemas and provide APIs and tooling.

Skills

Go

OAuth2/OIDC

JWT

mTLS

SpiceDB

Kubernetes

AWS

Protobuf/API design

Spiffe/SPIRE

OPA/Cedar

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Helm/ArgoCD

EKS/IAM/KMS

Postgres/CockroachDB

SpiceDB/ Zanzibar

OIDC providers

Job description

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies seeks a Senior IAM Engineer to own core identity and authorization components across vehicle software, cloud services, and internal teams. You’ll drive from requirements to implementation, ensuring security protections and scalable access management within a cloud-native stack.

You will work with Go, OAuth2/OIDC, SpiceDB, and Kubernetes on AWS, shaping policy, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enable secure vehicle operations and remote