Job Title: Senior IAM Engineer – Fine-Grain Authorization
Location: Remote
Job Summary:
We are seeking a Senior IAM Engineer with deep experience in fine-grained, policy-based authorization. This role focuses on designing, implementing, and managing modern authorization models and platforms, integrating identity governance, and enabling real-time access decisions across applications, APIs, and microservices.
Key Responsibilities:
Design and implement fine-grained authorization and policy-based access controls
Develop and maintain authorization models, frameworks, and architectures
Integrate identity governance solutions for identity attributes, roles, and entitlements
Ensure real-time authorization decisioning across APIs and microservices
Collaborate with security and application teams to enforce authorization policies
Contribute to IAM architecture and strategy for scalable access management
Required Skills & Experience:
Identity Governance & Access Management (IAM)
Fine-Grained Authorization, Policy-Based Authorization, Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), Relationship-Based Access Control (ReBAC)
Authorization models, platforms, and architecture
Runtime authorization and API authorization
Microservices and platform security
Identity attributes, entitlements, and policy modeling
Preferred Experience:
Exposure to tools or frameworks inspired by Google Zanzibar, OpenFGA, Okta FGA, or PlainID
Hands-on experience with SailPoint or other identity governance platforms
Experience designing scalable authorization for complex systems
Education & Certification:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field (or equivalent experience)
IAM or security certifications a plus (e.g., CISSP, CISM, SailPoint Certified)