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Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management
Brex
Seattle, USA
Senior · 7+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 3 weeks ago
okta
Key Skills for This Role
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Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and operate backend systems and APIs for authentication, authorization, identity context, and audit-related workflows.
- Lead engineers on initiatives end to end, from technical design and implementation through rollout, measurement, and operational support.
- Improve login and access experiences across SSO, MFA, step-up authentication, delegated access, and enterprise identity flows.
- Build and extend authorization systems that support custom roles, resource-aware access control, and secure defaults for product teams.
- Help create durable, identity-aware audit trails and attribution for user, service, delegated, and agent-driven actions.
- Partner closely with engineers across Brex to make IAM integrations secure by default and easier to adopt through clear patterns, tooling, and shared libraries.
- Mentor engineers on the team to deliver high-quality code and produce operational improvements that raise the bar for reliability and maintainability across the team’s systems.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of professional experience designing, developing, and deploying applications.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building reliable production backend systems.
- Experience leading complex projects and mentoring other engineers.
- Have strong API design fundamentals, rigor around testing, code quality, and documentation.
- An understanding of core IAM concepts such as authentication, authorization, sessions, tokens, MFA, SSO, OAuth, SAML, OIDC, or RBAC.
- Clear communication, collaborates well across teams, and are effective in cross-functional technical discussions.
- Demonstrating care about operational excellence and know how to improve system reliability, reduce toil, and maintain high-quality services over time.
- Having a strong product and engineering judgment and can balance security, usability, and developer experience.
- Bonus Points:
- Experience working on identity and access management, authentication, authorization, or audit systems in a production environment.
- Hands-on experience with Okta, Oso, SSO, SAML, OIDC, OAuth, passkeys, or WebAuthn.
- Experience building enterprise-facing admin controls, custom roles, delegated access flows, or audit trails.
- Worked on platform teams that provide shared infrastructure, paved roads, or secure-by-default frameworks for other engineering teams.
- Compensation:
- The expected salary range for this role is $192,000 - $240,000. However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
- Brex LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, N.A.
- Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.
About Brex
Financial Services
Corporate financial stack offering business credit cards, expense management, bill pay, and banking services designed for startups and scaling companies.
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