Staff Engineer, IAM Platform — Scale Secure Identities (Remote)

Spotify; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is seeking a Staff Engineer to shape the technical direction of Identity and Access Management within the User Platform. You will design and operate large‑scale IAM systems that securely authenticate, authorize, and manage customer identities across the platform.

You will mentor engineers, influence architecture across teams, and improve reliability, observability, and security while enabling rapid growth.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale IAM systems.
• Ability to influence architecture across multiple teams.
• Strong security, reliability, and performance judgment.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive architectural direction for identity services.
• Design distributed systems for auth and access control.
• Collaborate with product, security, and engineering teams.
• Improve observability and reliability of critical IAM platforms.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards.
• Foster experimentation and cross-team collaboration.

Skills

Identity & access management

Distributed systems design

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Security & reliability

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

OAuth 2.0

OIDC

Job description

Spotify is seeking a Staff Engineer to shape the technical direction of Identity and Access Management within the User Platform. You will design and operate large‑scale IAM systems that securely authenticate, authorize, and manage customer identities across the platform.

You will mentor engineers, influence architecture across teams, and improve reliability, observability, and security while enabling rapid growth.