IAM Engineer

Valon Tech

86d

About The Position

We’re looking for a Senior or Staff Engineer to build and own the authentication and user management systems that will power the next phase of our platform. This is a foundational, multi-year initiative—critical to unlocking our ability to support enterprise SaaS clients with scale, compliance, and resilience. This role is more than just security engineering: it’s about building identity as a product—from security tenancy controls to end user role management to developer-facing APIs and enterprise SSO. You’ll be the technical owner of our identity stack and work closely with product, security, and platform teams to design infrastructure that’s reliable, auditable, and intuitive for both end users and developers. You’ll think in systems and tradeoffs, design for fault tolerance and auditability, and bring a product mindset to everything from login flows to permissioning APIs. Some example problems on the roadmap: Architect a multi-tenant identity platform supporting fine-grained roles and access control. Design and implement SSO integration and federation features for enterprise clients. Build self-serve user and permission management APIs with strong guarantees. Ensure auditability and compliance with zero-downtime authentication systems. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives on complexity and is excited to build critical systems that may be invisible when working—but foundational when scaling.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on identity, authentication, or access management systems.
• Proven experience designing and scaling systems like SSO, OAuth2, SAML, RBAC/ABAC, or multi-tenant IAM platforms.
• Strong systems design skills with an understanding of how to build secure, compliant, and resilient infrastructure.
• Experience working in or building for regulated environments (e.g., finance, healthcare, government).
• A product mindset—you care about APIs, UX, and making complex systems usable and intuitive.
• Experience working in SaaS environments, particularly those with multi-tenant architectures.

Nice To Haves

• Prior work in high-scale or compliance-heavy companies.
• Demonstrated technical leadership or mentoring experience, even in informal roles.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core identity systems: authentication, authorization, user provisioning, and access control.
• Partner with product to define and implement user management features.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to meet enterprise client requirements.
• Develop scalable, auditable, and fault-tolerant infrastructure for regulated environments.
• Own technical strategy and execution for identity and authentication—balancing long-term vision with near-term needs.
• Establish and evolve IAM as a durable, user-facing capability, not just backend infrastructure.
• Advocate for best practices in security, performance, and developer experience across the identity surface.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior