Brex
Staff Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management
$240K–$300K
New York, New York, United States +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
About the job
Leads engineering initiatives to build and improve Brex’s authentication, authorization, identity, and audit systems for customers, partners, and internal users.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate backend systems and APIs for authentication, authorization, identity context, and audit workflows.
- Lead cross-organization projects from design through implementation, rollout, measurement, and operational support; mentor engineers.
- Improve login, access control, delegated identity, and audit capabilities while making IAM integrations secure by default and easier to adopt.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building reliable production backend systems.
- Experience leading complex projects and mentoring engineers.
- Strong API design, testing, code quality, and documentation practices.
- Understanding of IAM concepts such as authentication, authorization, sessions, tokens, MFA, SSO, OAuth, SAML, OIDC, or RBAC.
Nice to have
- Production experience with identity and access management, authentication, authorization, or audit systems.
- Hands-on experience with Okta, Oso, SSO, SAML, OIDC, OAuth, or WebAuthn.
Pay
$240,000 - $300,000 USD base salary
Tools
Okta, Oso, SSO, MFA, OAuth, SAML, OIDC, WebAuthn
AI focus
Evolving identity systems for delegated and agent identity and auditability of agent-driven actions.
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